Douglas Scott Jones
715 Holly Grove Lane
Bon Air, VA 23235
(804) 560-0924
djones1850@aol.com
EDUCATION
1998 M.A. with Honors, Ph.D. (ABD), University of Virginia
1983 B.A. with Honors, University of Chicago
EMPLOYMENT
1984-present Playwright. See PUBLICATIONS below.
1987-1993 Instructor (English), University of Virginia.
Developed and taught ENLT 248: Contemporary Literature (aka Suicide and Secular Humanism), ENLT 213 and 214: American Gothic. Taught ENWR 101: Composition and ENWR 201: Advanced Composition. Met with and advised undergraduate students.
1991-present Instructor (Playwriting, Creative Writing), Henrico Center For The Arts.
Developed playwriting instruction for Levels I-IV. Facilitated the development of scripts based on student writing, and student-written scripts.
1993-1999 Instructor (Literature, Creative Writing), UVA Center for Continuing Education.
Developed and taught Going to the Elephant (A Creative Writing Workshop), Writing the Shadow, Advanced Creative Writing, The Short Story, American Gothic, Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits. Taught Arts and Science Revisited.
1994 Instructor/Playwright (Songs of Freedom), Virginia Opera.
Worked with journalist A. Peter Bailey and Howard University's Kelsey Collie to generate scripts based on student writing.
1995-2005 Guest Artist/Instructor, The Collegiate School.
Taught playwriting, and worked with students studying “The Turn of the Screw.”
1995-present New Voices for the Theatre; Theatre IV; SPARC.
Taught classes, served as playwright-in-residence, mentored student playwrights, read and assessed submitted student scripts.
2001-2006 Instructor, Playwright-in-Residence, St. Catherine's School.
Taught minimester classes for Upper School, and playwriting for Middle School. Wrote a commissioned (but never produced) script based on interviews and student writing meant to explore the lack of diversity at St. Catherine's and St. Christopher's Schools.
2002-present Instructor, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Developed and taught Going to the Elephant, Writing the Shadow, Writing Scenes and Monologues, From Page to Stage and Screen.
2007-present Instructor, Visual Arts Center.
Developed and taught The Creative Spark, Flying Off the Page, Monologues, American Theatre Dysfunctional Family.
PUBLICATIONS
FILMS
2007 Memory and Legacy (Tredegar Civil War Museum, producer Pyramid Studio)
2006 1607: A Nation Takes Root (Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, producer Ernest Skinner)
2006 The Crossing (Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, producer Ernest Skinner)
2004 Frankenstein Lives! (WCVE, producer Jerry Williams)
PLAYS
2009 Endless Forms Most Wonderful: The Life and Work of Charles Darwin (commissioned by
the Carpenter Science Theatre Company)
2008 Genius in the Attic: The Restless Curiosity of Alexander Graham Bell (commissioned by
the Carpenter Science Theatre Company)
2007 What I Can Do? (commissioned by the University of Richmond)
2006 Blues (commissioned by the Henrico Center For The Arts)
2005 One Bad Camel (commissioned by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)
2004 Frankenstein Lives! (commissioned by the Carpenter Science Theatre Company)
2003 Songs from Bedlam (A Mass of the Ordinary) (with Kelly Kennedy, first produced by the Barksdale Theatre)
2003 That Old Windbag (commissioned by the Carpenter Science Theatre Company)
2002 Catching Up On Time (commissioned by the Carpenter Science Theatre Company)
1994 The Turn of the Screw (commissioned by the Barksdale Theatre, copyright 2000 Dramatic Publishing Company)
1993 Bojangles (with Charles Strouse and Sammy Cahn, commissioned by the Barksdale Theatre)
1992 A Christmas Carol (commissioned by the Barksdale Theatre)
1992 Coma (adapted from student writing at the Henrico Center For The Arts)
1991 The Brave Little Tailor (with Julie Fulcher, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1991 The Three Little Pigs (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1990 The Steadfast Tin Soldier (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1990 Beauty and the Beast (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1990 The Frog Prince (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1990 The Tortoise and the Hare (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1990 Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by
Theatre IV)
1989 The Snow Queen (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1989 The Bremen Town Band (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1989 The Nose (first produced by Theatre IV and the Sydney & Frances Lewis Foundation)
1989 The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1988 Silent Night (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Tuckahoe Presbyterian Church)
1988 Rumpelstiltskin (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1988 Jack and the Beanstalk (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1987 Hansel and Gretel (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1986 Puss in Boots (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1985 The Pied Piper (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1985 Young George Washington (with Ron Barnett, commissioned by Theatre IV)
1984 First Ladies (with Carol Gulley, first produced by Theatre IV)
ARTICLES
1988 Double Jeopardy and the Chameleon Art in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and
Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Studies in Scottish Literature Vol. XXIII)
LANGUAGES
Spanish, French.
REFERENCES
Mary Holland, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (804-367-0916)
John Moon, Pyramid Studio (804-353-0700)
Larry Gard, Carpenter Science Museum Theatre (804-864-1533)
Bruce Miller, Barksdale Theatre and Theatre IV (804-783-1688)
R. L. Rowsey, Company of Fools (208-788-6520)
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