Jones Hope Wooten
Jones Hope Wooten (Dramatists & Playwrights)
Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten are American playwrights, collectively known as Jones Hope Wooten. Having dedicated themselves to writing deliciously funny words from the Southern side of life, they now enjoy the reputation of being three of the most popular and widely-produced playwrights in the United States. They've built a following with their legions of loyal fans on "humor that is crisp, clever, very, very smart and never settles for an obvious laugh."
More than two thousand productions of their plays were mounted within the first seven years of their collaboration. There have been well over 15,000 performances of their comedies, entertaining millions of theatre-goers across the United States, as well as in Canada, Denmark, Japan, the Netherlands, Australia, Mexico,the Virgin Islands, England, Taiwan, Scotland and Kenya.
Jessie Jones co-authored the classic, Southern-fried funeral comedy, Dearly Departed, and its feature film adaptation, Kingdom Come, which was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Nicholas Hope, an award-winning playwright, served as Director of Casting at Theatre Communications Group in New York City and The Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and ABC Television. Jamie Wooten was a writer/producer on the much-loved television series “The Golden Girls.”
Plays
- Dearly Beloved
- Christmas Belles
- Southern Hospitality
- The Dixie Swim Club
- The Hallelujah Girls
- 'Til Beth Do Us Part
- The Red Velvet Cake War
- Dashing Through the Snow
- Mama Won't Fly
- Rex's Exes
- Always a Bridesmaid
References
Official website
Professional listings of Jones Hope Wooten
- IMDB-Jessie Jones
- IMDB-Nicholas Hope
- IMDB-Jamie Wooten
- Dramatists Play Service
- Doollee.com
- Josef-Weinberger Ltd. London
- Hal Leonard Australia
Noted Monologues written by Jones Hope Wooten
- "Outstanding Women's Monologues, Volume Two, 2010", Edited by Craig Pospisil, Dramatists Play Service, Publisher
- "Outstanding Men's Monologues, Volume Two, 2010", Edited by Craig Pospisil, Dramatists Play Service, Publisher
- "The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2008", Edited by Lawrence Harbison, Smith and Krause, Publisher
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