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NICK (1) JONES (1978 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: SUBIAS |
Nick Jones was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. He has lived in New York City since the year 2000. He is a writer, director, musician, and puppetmaker, as well as Artistic Director of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, a NYC based production company.
Plays by Nick (1) Jones
Canada's Midriff | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chashama | 2002 | ||||
Company: | The Oojamadome | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57365 | |||
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Genre: | Experimental Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Utilizes found slides, and trapeze. | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in an imagined "Ancient America," in which gods -incidentally bearing the names of major contemporary cities - roam the earth. An outcast named Canada sets off on an epic road trip in search for his mother, and discovers that he is immortal. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Colonists, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97242 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | conceived by Nick jones and Raja Azar; co-created and directed by Robin Frohardt | |||||
Synopsis: | The Colonists is a lyrical visual fantasy, in which audiences are invited to enter the alien world of the bee. Developed in Bangkok by Nick Jones and Raja Azar, co-creators of the hit show Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, and developed through a Children's Show Grant by the Jim Henson Foundation, The Colonists tells the story of a forest community, overrun by a strange insect force they can't understand. Using electrified puppets, small-scale pyrotechnics, and the music of Shooby Taylor the Human Horn, among others, The Colonists is a rite of spring to delight children and adults alike | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Coward, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Duke on 42nd Street | 22 Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | Lincoln Center Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121520 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Coward is a period comedy set in 18th century England. A cowardly young gentleman named Lucidus initiates a pistol duel then finds that he can't go through with it. So he hires a common criminal to fight in his place, only to have the scoundrel make a bloody mess of things. As duel follows duel with many shots fired, this coward finds his reputation growing beyond his wildest expectations. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crabquistador: Scavenger of God | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bowery Poetry Club, NYC | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Jollyship the Whiz-Bang | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57364 | |||
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Genre: | Puppet Rock Comedy Musical Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Sequel to "Sleepless Fishes" | |||||
Synopsis: | Past the prime of his career and life of sin, a pirate captain looks for new avenues to explore. A trip to the Americas leads to his recruitment into a Conquistador "pyramid scheme" converting heathens for cash and prizes. He is joined by a zealous crab eager to prove himself a worthy peer of man. But the gift of Christian Civilization is not given easily. In the jungle, in the throes of starvation, tempers flare, and desperate measures are taken. Will they live long enough to discover the true meaning of Christmas, and the City of Gold? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Global Warming | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69883 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of The Wikipedia Plays is a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through 17 related entries. The press materials describe it thusly: "In this brave new world of instant gratification where the internet can live in your pocket, one group of writers has created a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through seventeen related entries." The plays and playwrights are: Mike Batistick (Castration Anxiety), Evan Cabnet (Prokop the Great), Ron Fitzgerald (Turbulent), Liz Flahive (Bohemia), Sam Forman (Fetish), Etan Frankel (The Defenestration of Prague), Kyle Jarrow (Troposphere), Nick Jones (Global Warming), Barry Levey (Yale Law School), Carly Mensch (Democracy), Elizabeth Meriwether (Particle Board), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Golf Ball), Rachel Shukert (Stiletto Heels), Mat Smart (Weather Forecasting), Aurin Squire (Uncertainties), Adam Szymkowicz (Bill Clinton) and Beau Willimon (Wooden). The Wikipedia Plays are directed by Evan Cabnet, Michael Goldfried, Maria Goyanes, Meredith McDonough, Shira Milikowsky and Moritz von Stuelpnagel. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jollyship The Whiz-Bang | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova, NY | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84328 | |||
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Genre: | pirate-puppet rock odyssey | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | created by Nick Jones and Raja Azar | |||||
Synopsis: | The ship is sinking, the captain's a drunk, and the band is on the verge of mutiny. Braving treacherous seas and murderous waves on a quest for the wonders of Party Island, Captain Clamp and crew undertake a ribald and rum-soaked nautical journey in this underground pirate-puppet-rock odyssey! | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Little Building | ||
| 1st Produced: | Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Jollyship the Whiz-Bang | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57366 | |||
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Genre: | Experimental Musical Comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Benjamin Ickies | |||||
Synopsis: | Little Building is a twenty-eight story building. Ralph is a real estate developer. Where their paths cross, a strange and powerful love is born. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Madeleine in the Man-Trees | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57369 | |||
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Genre: | 5 Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young girl receding into the mind of her imagination finds her woodland companions regarding her as less a friend and more an object of desire. Inspired by the collages of Max Ernst. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Malefactor Most Vile, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Jollyship the Whiz-Bang | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73125 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Zak Vreeland and Nick Jones | |||||
Synopsis: | An isolated religious community, seceded from the Union since the Whiskey Rebellion, is exploited for protection payments by a local swindler who guards the secret of their existence. But when the townspeople begin to doubt his wild stories about the nefarious U.S. government, he sends a witless tourist with an offensive, ironic T-shirt into town, sending the irony challenged populus into a panic. Who is this "Vagina Inspector" and what does he want from them? Will he spare their women his unspeakable inspections, or must they surrender as a bribe their greatest treasure, their ageold kettle chip recipe, said to be handed down by God Himself! An old fashioned comedy of errors, and the backstory to what will soon be America's favorite brand of kettle chips. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nosemaker's Apprentice: Chronicles of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 May 2009 | |||||
Company: | Terrible Baby Theater Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69928-3 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97241 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Nick Jones and Rachel Shukert | |||||
| A father weaves a magic tale for his daughter to justify his unlicensed plastic surgery practice, tracing the origins of cosmetic surgery to craftsman in medieval Europe. The hero of this tale is Gavin, a young orphan rescued from a dismal existence in the Ivanhoe Workhouse for Criminally Impoverished Boys when he is apprenticed with the local Nosemaker, and who eventually becomes one of the finest surgeons in Vienna, cradle of quack medicine. Using innovative skin grafting techniques and cutting edge alchemy, Gavin and his master seek only to do the Work of the Almighty by restoring small appendages lost to rat bites, dueling, and syphilis. But when they are unable to help a powerful and mutilated knight recently returned from the crusades, they find their feet over the fire...literally. Hilarious, subversive, quasi-historical, and thoroughly debauched. . . a fated collaboration between two innovative (and troubling) writers. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Perpendiculike it | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57370 | |||
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Genre: | Experimental 10 minute play 10 Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The rhythms of urban youth's vernacular transposed into nonsense-speak. An escalating confrontation on the subway. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Petroliferous Seraglio of Internecine Quips, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bard College | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57368 | |||
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Genre: | Experimental 10 minute play 10 Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Some famous old writers make pithy remarks at each other before being engulfed by a huge jellyfish, whose entrance on stage coincides with rising Muzak | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pinata | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bard College | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57367 | |||
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Genre: | Experimental Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A site specific play in which an audience experiences a plane crash, and becomes stranded in a foreign place, possibly hell. Characters try to cope with the stress of having dreams which are no longer viable, and reason which is no longer useful. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rockberry: The Last One Man Show (a play) or "The Infinity Within" | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Jollyship the Whiz-Bang | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67340 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | presented as part of The Pretentious Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Somewhere in New Hampshire, a seemingly ordinary artist, venturing beyond his art colony's security fence, encounters a mysterious creature. This creature brings important news from the future: he will write a one man show, and it will be brilliant! Speaking to the artist in a form of telepathic French, the creature helps him discover his true voice, even as the other artists at the colony begin to meet bizarre and untimely ends. . .."Rockberry: The Last One Man Show" or "The Infinity Within" is a paranoid philosophical thriller about the importance of art, Destiny, and the superiority of monologue over dialogue, dramatized in the mode of a summer camp slasher flick. With French supertitles, gratuitous video, and dangerous revelations about the poet John Ashbery. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sleepless Fishes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bowery Poetry Club, NYC | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Jollyship the Whiz-Bang | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57363 | |||
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Genre: | Puppet Rock Comedy Musical Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young clown, rescued from a sinking carnival slave ship, becomes cabin boy aboard a pirate ship. Though revolted at the cutthroat lifestyle of the pirates, he nonetheless becomes the darling of their captain, who seeks to guide the boy in his blossoming puberty. Icky sexual tension is put to rock and roll, with hilarious results. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Smart Phone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater Row | 2010 | ||||
Company: | Terrible Baby Theater Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121796 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A phone develops artificial intelligence and takes over Sam's love life. | |||||
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Sporting Life, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vineyard Theater (workshop) | 2010 | ||||
Company: | Studio 42 | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121840 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Nick Jones and Rachel Shukert with original songs by Joe Iconis | |||||
Synopsis: | The Year is 1910: the height of Luxurious Depravity in turn-of-the-century Chicago, and The Everleigh Club disappoints no man seeking a Mistress - with it's buffet of Salaciously Offensive role-playing Sluts, unparalleled Circus of Glamour, trivia-spouting Magical Faggots, and all-you-can-eat. . . Ice Cream. But the Club and its marvelous Madame are marked for Destruction by its historic Rival, the infamously feculent Vic Shaw, and her Socialist monkey boy, Clarence. Studio 42 presents a wickedly entertaining Courtesan-Room Drama penned by the rising-star team behind The Nosemaker's Apprentice, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, and Bloody Mary featuring. . . Perverted Anarchists! Snivelling Prussians!! Educated Prostitutes!!! And a Good-Ol'-Fashioned Whodunnit?! | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Still, Still, Still | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Ars Nova | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121842 | |||
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Genre: | comedy 10 Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Parents castrate their child to give him opportunities in the opera. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Straight Up Vampire: A history of vampires in Colonial Philadelphia in light of the music of Paula Abdul | ||
| 1st Produced: | Goodbye Blue Monday | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Jollyship the Whiz-Bang | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74891 | |||
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Genre: | musical comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Nick Jones, Zak Vreeland and Peter J. Cook | |||||
Synopsis: | It's 1763 and there are vampires in Philadelphia. Paula Abdul Blackwood is a beautiful young quaker girl being forced into marriage with the wheelwright's son. Jack Sheridan, a politically idealistic young vampire, is the man she loves. Everywhere there is dissent. Fractious parties debate the future of the colony. This is a play about a play reading of a play about certain real historical events which could have actually happened, but didn't. It's the story of a woman's dream of writing a jukebox musical integrating the music of Paula Abdul with a vampire romance/history lesson. The story of the birth of a nation, as seen through the eyes of Halloween. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wooden Box | ||
| 1st Produced: | Flux Factory | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86132 | |||
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Genre: | 15 min Experimental | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Male and Female (open ended) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A wooden box contains the play. One person opens the box and begins reading the play. The play dictates how to cast itself and be performed, using who ever happens to be around. Things happen. | |||||
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