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Tia Dionne Hodge-Jones is an award-winning director, writer/playwright, actor, and director/producer. She is the inaugural recipient of the Adrienne Kennedy Society's Louis Kent-Hope Award for Excellence in Creative Writing & Poetry, is a former National Poetry Slam Team Champion, and wrote more than 60 monologues and scenes during her almost 17 years as Performer Theatre Workshop's Playwright-in-Residence. Her Cleveland Trilogy—Puddin', Love… Like Lemonade and A Spider in Wine—received workshop readings by New Jersey Dramatists & Waterfront Ensemble. Puddin' (New Perspectives Theatre Company production at Voices From the Edge 6.0 & 7.0 Festivals, 2003 New York International Fringe Festival alternate, 2009 Luna Stage New Moon Reading Series Tia Dionne Hodge-Jones is an award-winning director, writer/playwright, actor, and director/producer. She is the inaugural recipient of the Adrienne Kennedy Society's Louis Kent-Hope Award for Excellence in Creative Writing & Poetry, is a former National Poetry Slam Team Champion, and wrote more than 60 monologues and scenes during her almost 17 years as Performer Theatre Workshop's Playwright-in-Residence. Her Cleveland Trilogy—Puddin', Love… Like Lemonade and A Spider in Wine—received workshop readings by New Jersey Dramatists & Waterfront Ensemble. Puddin' (New Perspectives Theatre Company production at Voices From the Edge 6.0 & 7.0 Festivals, 2003 New York International Fringe Festival alternate, 2009 Luna Stage New Moon Reading Series at Luna Stage, and accepted at the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival.) Tia Dionne's first volume of original monologues, PLAY. SPEAK., was published by OddInt Media in 2014, and a few of her monologues and essays can be found in More Monologues for Women, by Women; Vol. II, and Black Comedy: 9 Plays. As an actress, Tia Dionne has appeared in numerous national and regional on-camera and voice-over/radio commercials. Over the years, Tia Dionne has co-starred in several episodes within the Law & Order franchise, as well as ABC's Forever, and 666 Park Avenue, to name a few. Recently, she appeared in Nicole Holofcener's Netflix film, "Land of Steady Habits," and as a lead in Tom Zanca's new web series "The Deep State."

She is also the creator of the original dramedy web series, Where's the Love? (formerly titled, Babygirl Blues and Other Colored People). The series had its premiere screening at the Reel Soul Film Festival held at the National Black Theatre in Harlem and later distributed by FUBU.TV (2016-17). Her pilot, The Whiskey, was an Official Selection at the Producers Guild of America Lab at the Sundance Film Festival and was a Rockstone Foundation (RFI) and Black Women's Entertainment (BWE) Web Series Writing Contest Finalist. She wrote, produced and directed two short films for the inaugural NYC Midnight Movie Madness Filmmaking Competition and was awarded the First Runner-up prize for Once Upon A Once Upon…. Tia Dionne produced/directed live events and video projects for America Scores and Veterans Across America. She works as a producer/writer/director through T Squared Media, LLC (TSM); the company she co-founded with her husband, Thomas Jones, in 2014. Under the TSM banner, Tia Dionne produces and directs corporate documentary projects and other live events. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, New York Women in Film, SAG-AFTRA, and AEA. She earned her M.A. and B.A. in English Literature from Case Western Reserve University.

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Slipping into another creative medium can be so energizing and instructive: The rules of the game may be different, but the challenge of capturing and holding an audience’s interest is universal. That’s why I was so excited about attending a showcase featuring selections from a new book, Play. Speak. 40 Monologues for Young Act Read more of this blog post »

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	New Monologues for Women by Women, Volume II by Liz Engelman (Editor), Louise Rozett (Goodreads Author), Tia Dionne Hodge-Jones (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Comedy: 9 Plays: A Critical Anthology with Interviews and Essays by Pamela Faith Jackson (Editor), Karimah (Editor), Jeff Nichols 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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