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 Pulitzer Prize winner Frank McCourt (Angela’s Ashes) - then an unknown English teacher - was a major influence on his writing. 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. His experience in all facets of film production and photography led to his becoming highly requested as a photo pilot by photographers and videographers that knew he could always find the perfect frame - whether balancing the setting sun on the cusp of the Golden Gate bridge for reknowned photographer Jean Michel Addor, or skimming the alien landscape of the salt flats for the science fiction film Hunting Kestral.

In 2002 Arthur accepted a job with the US Army as an instructor pilot in Fort Rucker, Alabama. While there, having nothing to do after the work day was over, (it was, after all, Alabama), Arthur was able to devote more time to his first calling - writing - and published a collection of twenty one short stories called Grumble Soup. He also had his first full-length play Circus Schism staged at a local venue.

After a 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, 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 Santa Monica.

In 2007, his short play Curfew was produced in New York City at the American Globe Theatre's 13th Annual Short Play Festival, and - in his first international production - at the Inspirato Festival in Toronto; while another play Tiger in a Cage premiered at the Kipling Theatre in Kentucky.
December saw a revival of The Christmas Princess - with a larger budget and a longer run. The show sold out, and plans to revive it in 2008 are underway.

2008 - Arthur continues from strength to strength. His screenplay Saving Nazgul is in production by Raz Entertainment, and he has completed two new screenplays, both of which are available through his agent -

The Brant Rose Agency.