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Syl Jones

SYL JONES

  
Nationality:    African American
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Syl Jones is the author of 60-plus plays, including Black No More, produced by the Guthrie Theater and Arena Stage and winner of the Kennedy Center award for Best New Play of 1998. He is the only playwright to win the Mixed Blood Theater Versus America and the Penumbra Theater Cornerstone awards in the same year. He began his career as a journalist in Cincinnati, Ohio at the age of 14. In 1980, his historic interview with physicist William B. Shockley appeared in Playboy magazine and has since been anthologized in the Best of the Playboy Interviews, Vol. II. Mr. Jones writes an editorial column for theMinneapolis Star Tribune newspaper and is the author of Rescuing Little Roundhead: a Childhood In Stories, published by Milkweed editions in 1996. He runs a thriving communications consulting business that includes clients such as Medtronic, Inc., Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, the NorthWay Community Trust, and HealthPartners.

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below is a list of Syl Jones's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Baby, Baby!         Bill Of (W)Rights         Black No More         Brotherhood, The         Burnt         Cincinnati Man         Daughter's Of Africa         Dig A Ditch, Dig A Tunnel         Fire In the Bones         Gunplay         Lazarus         Mother Of the Movement         Not Without Laughter         Point Of Revue         Ring Of Fire         Sacrament         Shine!         Where You Comin' From?         Wooden You

Baby, Baby!

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Bill Of (W)Rights

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Bill of (W)Rights is a political funhouse growing from a moment in history when self-censorship abounds and the populace is increasingly governed by fear. Nine playwrights offer ten plays, each based on one of the U.S. Constitution's first ten amendments. these pieces focus less on government interference and more on the interpersonal, from a Father and daughter facing a criminal trial to the silence of an unfaithful husband "pleading the fifth" to his family -- not to mention a company of actors yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater. the creation of the script, encompassing a diversity of voices and opinions, was itself an act of democracy, demonstrating that theatre can be a voice of revelation and revolution.

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Mixed Blood Theatre (Minneapolis, MN, United States)    2004

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80-90 min Comedy/Drama

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Black No More

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adapted From "Black No More" by George Schuyler . Produced by the Guthrie theater And Arena Stage in cooperation with Mixed Blood theater

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Brotherhood, The

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Great American History Theater, St. Paul Mn    1997

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Burnt

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Cincinnati Man

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Daughter's Of Africa

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Play is still running

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Dig A Ditch, Dig A Tunnel

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"a dream of ethics" about problems of young black girls in search of their expression and their identity

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Fire In the Bones

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Gunplay

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Lazarus

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Mother Of the Movement

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Not Without Laughter

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Set in a small Kansas town, at the turn of the century, Not Without Laughter is a poignant story of an Africa-American boys coming of age, and the harsh and painful realities of life in segregated America. the story is told from the perspective of Sandy, a ten year old boy. Sandy grows up under the watchful eye of his grandmother, who tries to protect him from bad influences so he does not go astray. Sandy is an idealist, who has a voracious appetite for books. He dreams of using the power of words to change people. This is a story that weaves the magical qualities of humanity - pain, love, laughter.

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Children's Theater in Minneapolis    1998

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Point Of Revue

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a composite shot of African America. . .with attitude. Through a riveting series of short plays and songs, this vaudeville defies stereotype as it explores a myriad of topics and places, from Northern Uganda to the American South, HIV to Condoleeza Rice. Swinging from the serious to the absurd, there's plenty to laugh and cry about in this powerful piece.

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Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minneapolis, MN, United States)    2006

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90-115 min Dramatic/Comedic vaudeville

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Ring Of Fire

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Sacrament

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part of Bill Of (W)Rights Anthology

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Shine!

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Penumbra Theater, St. Paul, Mn    1991

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Where You Comin' From?

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Wooden You

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part of Point of Revue

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