Jessie Jones

Jessie Jones

Jessie Jones co-authored the laugh-out-loud comedies Dearly Departed, Christmas Belles, The Red Velvet Cake War, Always a Bridesmaid, the perennial audience favorite The Sweet Delilah Swim Club and ma... Read more

Jessie Jones co-authored the laugh-out-loud comedies Dearly Departed, Christmas Belles, The Red Velvet Cake War, Always a Bridesmaid, the perennial audience favorite The Sweet Delilah Swim Club and many others. Along with Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, collectively known as Jones Hope Wooten, Jones created one of the most popular and widely produced playwrighting entities in the United States, with their specialty being uproarious comedies and vivid strong roles for women. Because of their commitment to and support of local theatres across the nation, Jones Hope Wooten have been dubbed “America’s Playwrights.”