jessie
jones
nicholas hope
jamie wooten
are quickly becoming some of America’s most widely-produced comedic
playwrights. Their Southern-style laugh-out-loud comedies include
the wildly popular Futrelle Family Texas trilogy: “Dearly
Beloved” and “Christmas
Belles,” that have played to sold-out houses across
the United States, and “Southern
Hospitality" which received its world premiere November,
2007, in Asheville, NC. Jones, Hope and Wooten are also authors
of the brand new play “The
Dixie Swim Club,” a comedy about the everlasting power
of female friendship.
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Jessie Jones co-authored the award-winning play, DEARLY DEPARTED, and
its feature film adaptation, “Kingdom Come,” which was released
by Fox Searchlight Films. Her short stories have been published in literary
journals and she has written for television sitcoms and an animated series
for Walt Disney Productions. As an actor, Jessie has appeared onstage
in New York and in regional theatres as well as in television and film.
Nicholas
Hope won the Southwest Regional Playwrights Competition for his first
play, A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY. He has written episodic television for
Warner Bros. and Walt Disney Studios. As a casting director, Nick 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 wrote or produced
nearly four hundred episodes of television sitcoms, won the Writers Guild
of America award and spent many seasons with Dorothy, Blanche, Rose and
Sophia as a writer/producer on the classic television series “The
Golden Girls.”