Nick Jones (writer)

Nick Jones (born 1978) is an Alaskan born playwright, screenwriter, and performer, specializing in dark comedy.^[1] He wrote for the first four seasons of the Netflix series Orange is the New Black.^[2][3] He has also written several critically acclaimed works for the theater, including the 2008 puppet rock musical Jollyship the Whiz-Bang (in which he also starred) ^[4] The Coward, (2010)^[5] and Trevor (2013).^[6] The Coward won 2 Lortel Awards^[7](for Kristen Schaal and Gabriel Berry). Circle X Theatre's 2015 production of Trevor, starring Jimmi Simpson and Laurie Metcalf, was nominated for 6 and won 4 Ovation Awards, including Best Playwriting. It also won the LA Critics Circle award for Playwriting.^[8][9] Artists Repertory Theatre will stage the Northwest premiere of Trevor from September 6 to October 2 of 2016.^[10]

Plays

• "Little Building"
• "Jollyship the Whiz-Bang"
• "The Nosemaker's Apprentice (with Rachel Shukert)"
• The Sporting Life (with Rachel Shukert)"
• "Straight up Vampire: the History of Vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania as Performed to the Music of Paula Abdul"
• "The Coward"
• "The Wundelsteipen, and Other Roles for Young People"
• "Trevor"
• "Grizzly"
• "Vérité"
• "Salome of the Moon"
• "Important Hats of the Twentieth Century"

References