rthur M. Jolly was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for his feature comedy The Free Republic of Bobistan. As a playwright, Jolly has penned over 50 produced plays, with productions across the US and in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America. He has twice won the Joining Sword and Pen competition, and was a finalist for the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, and a two time semi-finalist for the O'Neill Conference. His published plays include A Gulag Mouse, Trash, Past Curfew, Long Joan Silver, The Christmas Princess, The Four Senses of Love, How Blue is My Crocodile, Snakes in a Lunchbox, Moby (No Last Name Given), A Grain of Salt, Past Saturn, What the Well Dressed Girl is Wearing, Bath Time is Fun Time, The Bricklayer and two collections of short plays Guilty Moments and Thin Lines. Other produced plays include Of Rats and Men, Christmas Spirit, The Secret of Jarlsberg, Mopping the Stage, If You Could Go Back, and the NPR radio play Thicker than Water.Jolly is a member of the WGA, The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, and The Dramatists Guild and is repped by The Brant Rose Agency.