Jennie Franks is an English playwright and filmmaker. Jennie_Franks

Career

Franks co-wrote and directed an educational film about the effects of

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in rural Colorado titled ''Soft Smoke, AIDS in the Rural West''.''Denver Rocky Mountain News''. Denver, Colorado: 8 November 1999. p. 7.A She wrote and acted in the play ''Stuck!'', about "one woman's courageous struggle to get out of a locked basement bathroom at a coffee house and reclaim control of her stalled life", which debuted in New York in 2008. She filmed ''The Ballad of Arthur Muldoon'' with

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. Franks founded SPARKy Productions in 1998, a group dedicated to highlighting social justice issues via creative performance, and acts as its artistic director. The organization produced the annual Telluride Playwrights Festival. The film festival culminated in 2016 with Franks' production of ''The Hispanic Women's Project''.

Life

Franks was the first wife of Jethro Tull frontman

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, from 1970 to 1974. She wrote many of the lyrics for the Jethro Tull song " Aqualung" (1971). Ian Anderson, the principal songwriter for Jethro Tull, has said, " hein fact was responsible for lyrics in the first couple of verses ... I suppose in total probably about half of the lyrics were words or word associations that she had come up with," based on pictures of homeless men Franks had taken as a photography student.Who is Jennie Anderson, the person credited on the ''Aqualung'' album as the author of the title track?
, Jethro Tull FAQ. Retrieved 26 October 2012. Franks later moved to Los Angeles and married

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and novelist Jeffrey Price. They relocated to

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in 1993. Franks and her second husband have two daughters, Lucy and Sophie-Ann Price.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Franks, Jennie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English dramatists and playwrights English stage actresses Jethro Tull (band) British emigrants to the United States