Jordan Allen-Dutton (born April 16, 1977) is an American writer, producer, and director. He is best known for co-creating the play, ''

The Bomb-itty of Errors ''The Bomb-itty of Errors'' is a hip hop theatre retelling of Shakespeare's ''The Comedy of Errors''. Written and performed by Jordan Allen-Dutton, Jason Catalano, GQ, and Erik Weiner, the show has been performed in New York City (Off-Broadway), ...

,'' and for his writing on the

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television series, '' Robot Chicken''.

Biography

Allen-Dutton was born on April 16, 1977 in

Palo Alto, California Palo Alto (; Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. The city was es ...

. He graduated with a B.F.A. degree from

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(NYU),

Tisch School of the Arts The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic and media arts school of New York University. Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the a ...

at the Experimental Theatre Wing. In 1999, he co-created and starred in ''

'', a so-called "Add-Rap-Tation" of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, that mixed hip-hop and Shakespeare. The show debuted in New York (Off-Broadway) at 45 Bleecker St. and went on to run in London (West End), Chicago, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Dublin, Florida, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and continues to play around the world. The Bomb-itty is published by

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. In 2002, Allen-Dutton co-created and starred in the MTV sketch comedy series, '' Scratch & Burn'' and attended the

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's Screen Writing Lab with a film adaptation of ''The Bomb-itty of Errors''. In 2004, Allen-Dutton formed ''Famous Last Nerds'' with collaborator Erik Weiner their musical comedy Nerds, about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs' rise from garage inventors to titans of the digital age. Weeks before their Broadway debut, ''Famous Last Nerds'' was abruptly canceled before performances, due to financial troubles. Allen-Dutton and Weiner's video '' Shawshank In A Minute'' was directed by

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and won JibJab's Great Sketch Experiment in 2006. Allen-Dutton co-wrote many songs with Erik Weiner including, "I'm So Straight", "''One Line on the Sopranos'' " and "''I Google Myself"'' produced by Yung Mars. Allen-Dutton has also written for and produced television shows such as '' America's Best Dance Crew'', ''

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'', NBC's ''

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'', the

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, the HBO poetry show Brave New Voices and '' Lip Sync Battle.'' In addition to writing and producing Allen-Dutton founded a software company in 2004 called Talking Panda, that creates applications for mobile devices. Talking Panda's software iLingo a talking phrasebook was among the first products in the apple store and was featured in Time Magazine in the Nov 03, 2008 issue. Talking Panda iLingo was also included in the iPhone App store on the day it launched.

References

External links

Official website

Famous Last Nerds
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Allen-Dutton, Jordan American television writers American male television writers Television producers from California Tisch School of the Arts alumni Living people 1977 births Writers from Palo Alto, California Screenwriters from California