
are currently enjoying the reputation of being three of the most widely-produced comedic playwrights in America.
Their Southern-style laugh-out-loud comedies include
the wildly popular Futrelle Family Texas trilogy: “Dearly
Beloved,”
“Christmas
Belles” and “Southern
Hospitality.” Jones, Hope and Wooten are also authors of the hit plays “The
Dixie Swim Club,”
“The
Hallelujah Girls”, “Til Beth Do Us Part”
and their newest comedies “The Red Velvet Cake War”,
“Dashing Through The Snow””,
“Mama Won't Fly”and “Rex's Exes”.
Their work also appears in “The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2008,” Smith & Kraus, publisher, and “Outstanding Women’s Monologues, Vol. Two”,
Dramatists Play Service, Inc., publisher.
Jessie Jones co-authored the award-winning classic, Southern-fried funeral comedy, DEARLY DEPARTED, and
its feature film adaptation, “Kingdom Come,” which was released
by Fox Searchlight Films. Nicholas
Hope was Director of Casting
for Theatre Communications Group in New York, The Goodman Theatre in Chicago
and ABC Television in New York and Los Angeles. Jamie Wooten spent many seasons with Dorothy, Blanche, Rose and
Sophia as a writer/producer on the classic television series “The
Golden Girls.”
With more than 1,800 productions and over 12,000 performances, the JONES HOPE WOOTEN COMEDIES
have now entertained more than 1,000,000 theatergoers in forty-nine states across America and in Canada, Denmark,
Japan, The Netherlands, Australia, Mexico, The Virgin Islands, England,
Taiwan, Scotland and Kenya!