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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
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finalist, and ''Sovereignty.'' His work in television includes
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's '' Weeds'' and '' United States of Tara'', NBC drama '' Friday Night Lights'',
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'' and '' Perry Mason'', and AMC'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
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nomination for
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for the episode "The Son". Jones grew up in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles, California, and graduated from
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in 1990. He studied filmmaking and English at Cal State Northridge and graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2004.


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* Living people 1972 births 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights American television writers American male television writers Yale School of Drama alumni American male dramatists and playwrights 21st-century American male writers El Camino Real High School alumni Screenwriters from California 21st-century American screenwriters {{US-tv-writer-stub