Bret Jones
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EDUCATION

Ph.D in Education from the University of Oklahoma, 2003.

M. A. in Drama from the University of Oklahoma, 1993.

B. A. in Speech/Theatre from East Central University, 1991.

 

EMPLOYMENT

Assoc. Professor of Communication, Director of Theatre, East Central University, Ada, OK, 1997-present.

 

MEMBERSHIPS

SPERDVAC--Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy

National Lum and Abner Society

Oklahoma Community Theatre Association

Educational Theatre Association

Founding member of The Ancient Radio Players, radio performance group in Ada, OK

National Business Manager for Alpha Psi Omega, National Honorary Dramatic Fraternity

 

WORKS

Novels

·         Stage Blood, TBA.

·         A Rope and a Prayer, TBA.

·         Windrows, Publish America, 2006. 

·         The Hamlet Ruse, Treble Heart Books, 2006.

·         The Santa Claus Mysteries, Publish America, 2005.

·         The Cowboy Culprit, Publish America, 2005.

·         The Hawkshaw Chronicles, by SterlingHouse, 2002.

Plays/Screenplays

·         Type O Negative, to be produced at ECU, 2007.

·         Native Skin, a staged reading at Native Voices at the Autry, Los Angeles, CA, 2007.

·         Isht Unowa Tuchina, one-act producated at the Chicksaw Summer Arts Academy, 2007.

·         War Paint, The Garrard Play Prize winner, The Five Civilized Tribes Museum, 2006.

·         The Field, to be produced at East Central University in 2006-07 theatre season.

·         On the Air!, produced at East Central University, summer 2006.

·         The Hero Zone, a screenplay produced by Jupiter Films, 2006; Best Mini Runner-up Script-to-Screen Film Festival, 2006.

·         The Year was 1856, one-act produced at the Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy, 2006.

·         The Trip, one-act produced at the Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy, 2005.

·         Kindred, The Garrard Play Prize winner, The Five Civilized Tribes Museum, 2004; produced by ECU, 2005. 

·         The Onyx Sky, a play produced at ECU, 2004.

·         Homefront, a play produced at ECU, 2003.

·         Too Many Tomorrows, a one-man show produced at ECU, 2001; Seminole State College, 2004.

·         The Isolation House, a play produced by The American Theatre of Actors in New York City, 2001—an Off-off Broadway theatre.

·         The Thespian, a play produced by Ada Community Theatre, 2002.

·         The Mouth of the Lion, a screenplay, that was shot by Phigment Philms in Ada, 2001. 

Radio

·         Writer and co-founder of The Ancient Radio Players—a radio performance troupe that produces original scripts for airing on area radio stations and live performances.

·         Keeping Up with the Joneses, second place in The Friends of Old Time Radio script contest, 2006.

Poetry

·         From a Dark Corner of the Stage, a poetry chapbook published by The Plowman, 1995.

Articles

*              Red Dust Revisited                                              12 article series, The Enid News, 2007.

*              Radio Days                                                           Nostalgia Digest, 2007.

*              Jot’Em Down Stores Still Alive Today            Nostalgia Digest, accepted 2006.

*              Masculinity in Drama                                        ECU Research Journal, 2004.


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