Nick Jones is a playwright,
director, puppet designer, screenwriter, and performer. His
show Jollyship the Whiz-Bang at Ars Nova, a puppet
rock musical about pirates, premiered at Ars Nova, was recently
revived for the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater,
and was nominated by the Jim Henson Foundation for a 2011-2012
Mid Atlantic Touring grant as part of their "American
Masterpieces" series. His new play The Coward
will premiere in the fall of 2010 at LCT3, and has been optioned
for film by Big Beach Films. Other plays produced include:
Little Building (Galapagos) Canada’s Mid-Riff
(chashama), Rockberry: The Last One Man Show
(The Brick), Straight Up Vampire: A History of Vampires
in Colonial Pennsylvania as Performed to the Music of Paula
Abdul (Philly Fringe Festival) The Nosemaker's Apprentice
(The Brick, with Rachel Shukert) and The Colonists,
a puppet work for children (Best Puppet Show, L Magazine,
2009). He has performed music or theater at the Portland
Institute of Contemporary Art's TBA Festival, the Dublin Fringe
Festival, The Kitchen, P.S. 122, The Public, and the Edinburgh
Fringe. He has been an artist-in-residence at the O’Neil
Puppetry Conference, The MacDowell Colony, Stonybrook Writer's
Conference, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Colony, and at the Hoontown
Puppet Festival in Bangkok, among others; and he was a writer
in the Ars Nova Play Group. Other honors include: Best
of New York 2008(L Magazine and Gothamist, for
Jollyship), Best Music Video (Coney Island Film
Festival, 2007) Nomination for Best Show at the Dublin
Fringe Festival, and a 2007 grant from the Jim Henson Foundation.
In addition, he and partner Raja Azar were deemed "Best
Grown Men Who Still Play With Dolls" by the Village Voice
in 2009. Nick was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska and
earned his Literature/Creative Writing BA from Bard College.
He is currently a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow
at Juilliard, where he was a recipient of the fancy sounding
Lecomte du Nouy Prize. Outstanding Commission from Center
Theater Group: Homunculus, a musical (with Dave Malloy,
directed by Sam Gold).
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