Rolin B. Jones (born September 22, 1972) 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, and ''Sovereignty.'' His work in television includes

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's '' Weeds'' and ''

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'',

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drama '' Friday Night Lights'', HBO's '' Boardwalk Empire'' and ''

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'', and

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's '' Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire''. 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 and received a 2010 Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for the episode "The Son". Jones grew up in the Woodland Hills area of

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, and graduated from El Camino Real High School in 1990. He studied filmmaking and English at

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and graduated from the

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in 2004.

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