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Asheville Community Theatre Announces Playwrights in Residence Partnership |
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Asheville Community Theatre announced yesterday at their Annual Meeting an official partnership with Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, the playwrights of the smash hit Southern comedies Dearly Beloved, Christmas Belles and Southern Hospitality, all of which premiered at ACT. Jones, Hope and Wooten are the first artists to be named Playwrights in Residence at Asheville Community Theatre. A World Premiere Jones, Hope, Wooten comedy will be produced at Asheville Community Theatre for the next five seasons, beginning with ‘Til Beth Do Us Part in the 2008-09 season. “Not only do Jessie, Nick and Jamie write home run comedies that are loved by our actors and our audiences, they have truly become part of the Asheville Community Theatre family from the moment they walked through the door. We have been blessed by both their friendship and their talent, and we couldn't be happier to produce their future shows,” says Phil Atwood, Managing Director of Asheville Community Theatre. The relationship began in November 2006 when Asheville Community Theatre produced the World Premiere of Dearly Beloved, the first in a trilogy featuring the fiery, funny and often feuding Futrelle sisters of Fayro, Texas. Audiences raved and beat a path to the door of the theatre for each of the shows in the trilogy. |
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“Asheville Community Theatre has welcomed and offered support to us from day one,” says Jessie Jones. “We are thrilled that ACT is our home theatre.” Jessie Jones co-authored the play, Dearly Departed, as well as its screen adaptation, Kingdom Come; Nicholas Hope won the Texas New Playwright's Competition for his first play, A Friend Of The Family and was Director of Casting for ABC Television in Los Angeles; and North Carolina native, Jamie Wooten, has written and produced nearly four hundred episodes of network television, including four seasons on the classic series, The Golden Girls. All three playwrights were born and raised in the pre-Wal-Mart South and cherish their heritage. They write about the South they know best – the South of their childhoods before the great homogenization of American culture had taken hold.
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