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Rolin B. Jones (born September 22, 1972)[2] is an American playwright and television writer. His plays include The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, for which he was a 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist,[3] and Sovereignty.[4] His work in television includes Showtime's Weeds and United States of Tara, NBC drama Friday Night Lights, HBO's Boardwalk Empire and Perry Mason, and AMC's Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire.[5]

Rolin Jones
Born	(1972-09-22) September 22, 1972 (age 50)[1] Los Angeles, California
Education	California State University, Northridge (BA) Yale University (MFA)
Occupation	Playwright, television writer

Jones joined the crew of Friday Night Lights as a writer and supervising producer for the series fourth season in 2009 and wrote the episodes "The Son" and "Laboring". He was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Award for Best Drama Series for his work on the series[6] and received a 2010 Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for the episode "The Son".[7]

Jones grew up in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles, California,[2] and graduated from El Camino Real High School in 1990.[7] He studied filmmaking and English at Cal State Northridge[8] and graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2004.[2][9]

References

External links

• Rolin Jones at IMDb

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