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New Kid Next Door is in The Best 10-Minute Plays 2024 from Smith & Kraus!
Smith & Kraus - Best 10-Minute Plays 2024


Faces of America script cover

A second edition of Mrs Dilber's Christmas Carol is now available from Next Stage Press!

My newest play from Youthplays, Straw, Sticks, Bricks!



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ARTHUR M. JOLLY.

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NEWS

Updated February 2025

Upcoming Productions!

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April 24th-May 8th2024 A Gulag Mouse COM Theatre
Texas City, TX
March 2025 There Is No Play Hawthorne HS Cougar Theatre
Hawthorne, CA
Spring 2025 There Is No Play Burnett JHS Theatre
Wylie, TX





The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2024!

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that NEW KID NEXT DOOR is included in this year's collection from Smith & Kraus of The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2024. It's my second play in the classic series, the last was THE FOUR SENSES OF LOVE in 2012!
The play is a delightfully creepy little daylight horror play for three teens.

Arthur M. Jolly proudly holds a copy of Smith and Kraus' The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2024






Straw, Sticks, Bricks out from YouthPLAYS!

My unexpected take on the Three Little Pigs, STRAW, STICKS, BRICKS has just been published by YouthPLAYS. It's my fifteenth It's the tale of three building materials who long to become houses, and what happens when they meet three pigs on the run from a big, bad wolf. Given the state of the country right now, I am so proud of this brave little play, that tells us that everyone–even a pile of straw–deserves to have their story told.

The cover of Straw, Sticks, Bricks






A Gulag Mouse in Texas!

My gritty post-war prison drama A Gulag Mouse will be produced at the COM Theatre in Texas City, Texas, April 24th to May 8th, directed by friend, amazing fight director, and playwright of "A Divine Kerfuffle," H. Russ Brown!

A Gulag Mouse poster, showing a Russian nesting doll surrounded by barbed wire





A new video for the second edition of Mrs Dilber's Christmas Carol!

My subversive take on the Dickens classic Mrs. Dilber's Christmas Carol has a new promo video, and a second edition of the play after some rewrites following the LA Production. I came up with some good ideas, some new lines - but I also have been working on a secret project that inspired me to do some major structural changes to the opening scene... and Gene Kato and everyone at Next Stage Press was excited to get them into print!





Faces of America Monologue Publication!

My latest monologue No Quarter Given was beautifully performed by Matthew Menendez at the Faces of America Monologue festival #6, on November 23, 2024 at the Marjorie S. Deane Theater in New York City, and is now published in their anthology.

The playground Experiment's Faces of America 6





Buy me a latte?

So this site has had over 1.5 million visitors (see the counter above!), and I added a button for the "Buy me a coffee" website, thinking it might offset the cost of hosting the free monologues to download. Well.. it didn't. There was an initial burst of tips from some lovely friends, for which I am very grateful... and since then... very quiet. But you might be the visitor that suprises me! Chip in a buck or two today!




What are you writing?

I'm still working on a play about The Mysterious Disappearance of Agatha Christie - developed with Houston's Alley Theatre. Here's some inside info, courtesy of Brendan Bourque-Sheil and the Landing Theatre New Works Podcast!




On Writing Monologues


A drama teaching friend of mine asked me to muse on what makes a strong standalone monologue for her class... so here's my take on it!