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A Gulag Mouse from Next Stage Press

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Guilty Moments from Original Works Press
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The Christmas Princess from YouthPLAYS

How Blue is My Crocodile from YouthPLAYS

The Unsaddest Theatre Ten Minute Play Festival Book includes Bath Time is Fun Time

The Unsaddest Theatre ten Minute Play Festival

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"Grumble Soup and Other Stories" is now available for Kindle.


The official site for award winning screenwriter and playwright Arthur M. Jolly.


Here, you can learn all about Arthur, download free monologues for auditions and classes, purchase playscripts, and get all the info on past productions, screenplays and upcoming events. Welcome!


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Latest News

Posted January 2012

THIS JUST IN - DOING THE MATH WINS!

My latest monologue Doing the Math won the 2012 Monoslam Competition at the Secret Rose Theatre in Los Angeles.
Congrats to KC WRIGHT for an amazing performance!

Upcoming productions

If You Could Go Back... will be at Launch 2012 from The Playwrights' Round Table, January 12-15 and 18-22, 2012 at the John & Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center in Orlando.

Playwrights Round Table

KC WRight will perform "Doing the Math" at the Secret Rose Theatre Monoslam Competition Sunday January 29th at 11246 Magnolia Blvd NoHo Arts District, North Hollywood, CA 91601

MonoSlam Competition KC WRight

Bath Time is Fun Time will be at the Pick of the Vine Season Ten Festival January 13th through February 18th, 2012 at the Little Fish Theatre in San Pedro, CA.

Bath Time is Fun Time

Almost Christmas will PREMIERE at the 17th Annual One Act Festival February 10th through the 19th, 2012 at the Venture Theatre in Billings, MT.

Venture Theatre

The award winning play TRASH will premiere at the Side Project Theatre in Chicago, March 24th through May 5th, 2012. Courtesy of the Babes With Blades theatre company.

Trash opens in March!

An entire evening of my short plays Love Plays On will be at the Randall Theatre April 120th through the 15th, 2012 in Medford, Oregon.

Venture Theatre

TRASH will have a staged reading by the Wordsmyth Theatre Company in Houston on Monday, May 14th, 2012. More details to follow!

Trash

One minute plays on video!

GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS - the one minute play festival - just posted this year's entry PARENT TEACHER.

This year's GI60 entry Parent Teacher is viewable on YouTube.

And here's the 2010 and 2009 entries, NOT EXPECTING THAT and HAVE YOU SEEN MY...