Arthur M. Jolly was recognized by the Academy with a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.
Winner of the Todd McNerney National Playwriting Award, three time Joining Sword and Pen winner and a Woodward/Newman Drama Award finalist, Jolly has penned over 70 produced plays, with productions across the US and in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America. Published plays include A Gulag Mouse, Trash, Past Curfew, The Ithaca Ladies Read Medea, Long Joan Silver, The Christmas Princess, The Four Senses of Love, Rising, and two short play collections: Guilty Moments and Thin Lines. Jolly is a member of the WGA caucus, a lifetime member of The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, and The Dramatists Guild.
Every battle, every war is fought for things worth dying for.
Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.