BIOGRAPHY

Arthur M. Jolly was born in the UK, and lived in England, Kenya, Madagascar and France until the age of eleven, when his family moved to New York City.
Arthur attended Stuyvesant High School, where he was a student of Frank McCourt (Pulitzer prizewinner for Angela’s Ashes). After graduating high school, Arthur worked in New York as a stunt performer and special effects artist, garnering over 160 credits and doubling numerous actors including Academy Award™ winner Adrien Brody.

During this time, Arthur wrote several screenplays and had his first publication, the short story Dancing with Fire, published in the literary journal Reader’s Break.

In 1998, Arthur moved to Northern California to become a helicopter pilot - a career that would last for eight years, flying tourists into the Grand Canyon, fighting forest fires in Northen Idaho, and teaching U.S. Army pilots in Alabama.

After his short play Howie’s Last Words was accepted into the prestigious Summer Shorts Festival by the Miami City Theatre (chosen from 850 submissions) and given a full equity production in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Arthur moved to Marina del Rey in Los Angeles, where he currently resides on a three story Mississippi riverboat-style houseboat, the Folie á Deux, with his fiancée Danielle Ozymandias

In 2006 alone, he wrote five feature length screenplays - one a quarterfinalist in Hollywood Scriptwriter Magazine’s American Screenwriting Competition; and one earning him the highest screenplay competition award - the Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
He also wrote the short plays Better by Candlelight produced by the Rockland Theatre Company in LA, and The Bricklayer, produced by the Atlantis Playmakers in Massachussetts, and a full length children’s play The Christmas Princess produced by The Coop Theatre Company

In recent years, Arthur has divided his time between writing screenplays - including Under the Same Sky (in post-production), and plays, including the Woodward/Newman Drama Award finalist A Gulag Mouse( Also a winner of the 2009/2010 Joining Sword and Pen Competition, and the 2010 Off Broadway Competition), and Past Curfew, available from Next Stage Press.

His collection of short plays Guilty Moments has just been published by Original Works Publishing.

Arthur M. Jolly is represented by