Andy Jones has been a professional writer and actor for over thirty years. He has written five critically acclaimed one-man comedy shows: Out of the Bin, An Evening with Uncle Val, Still Alive, King O’ Fun, and most recently, To The Wall. He has toured extensively to critical acclaim across Canada, the UK, and Ireland. Andy was recently nominated for a Gemini for his performance in To The Wall on CBC Television's Opening Night series, as well as winning ‘Best Performance’ at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax. This September a film version of his one-man show King O’ Fun premiered on BRAVO! TV and was shown at The Atlantic Film Festival.
Jones was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland where he co-founded the Resource Centre for the Arts at the L.S.P.U. Hall, co-writing, acting in, and directing many original productions. He is well known in Canada as one of the groundbreaking Newfoundland comedy troupe CODCO, in both its theatrical and television incarnations. With the CODCO collective he wrote 5 full-length theatre pieces: Cod On A Stick, Sickness Death and Beyond The Grave, Das Capital, Pocketcrumbs, and The Tale Ends. Other notable works include Albert, a one-act play for one man and a budgie bird, and the children’s plays Jack Meets the Cat and Jack-Five-Oh.
Andy Jones has performed across Europe with The Madhouse Company of London, in England with The Ken Campbell Roadshow, and across Canada in theatre productions including The Time and Place (Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Toronto), Pilk’s Madhouse (Second Stage, Halifax), Love and Anger (Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary), Pope Joan (Nightwood Theatre, Toronto), The Postal Show (Theatre P.E.I., Charlottetown), and Bloomsday (Anna Livia Productions, Toronto).
In television Andy has co-written and performed in Kids in the Hall, Dooley Gardens, The Cathy Jones Special, and Nasty Habits. In film he played principal roles in Rare Birds, Brain Candy, Extraordinary Visitor, A Secret Nation, Paint Cans, Life With Billy, Coleslaw Warehouse, and The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood (which he also co-wrote and directed).
Andy’s numerous awards include two Gemini awards, five Gemini nominations, two Emmy nominations, two Genie nominations, election to the Newfoundland Arts Council Hall of Honour, The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council’s Award of Excellence, and the ACTRA Award of Excellence for Lifetime Achievement.
Andy will be touring his one-man show To The Wall to the Ten Days on the Island Festival in Tasmania, Australia in March 2007.
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Andy Jones appears on Donovan's Station by Robin McGrath. He also performs his own work Letters from Uncle Val.