Jon Jory

Jory is a child of Hollywood character actors, namely his father Victor Jory, who played Jonas Wilkerson, the scheming overseer in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, and his mother Jean Inness, who played nurse Beatrice Fain in the American medical drama television series Dr. Kildare. Jory received his Actor's Equity card as a young child.

Jory was at the forefront of the regional theater movement of the 1960s, which began with the opening of the Guthrie Theater in 1963, showing that not all theater talent was centralized in New York City and Los Angeles. Jory served as artistic director of the Long Wharf Theatre from 1965 to 1966; his contract was terminated once the fledgling theater hit rough financial waters.

In 1969, Jory took over the helm of Actors Theatre of Louisville, a small regional theater just five years old. Under his leadership, it became one of the top theaters in the country. Jory's major accomplishment was the foundation and cultivation of the annual Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, beginning in 1976. It has since produced a number of outstanding plays including The Gin Game (1978), Crimes of the Heart (1981), Cementville (1991) and Dinner with Friends (1998), not to mention almost everything Jane Martin has ever written.

In 2017, Jory began teaching at the UCLA Department of Theater as a Visiting Professor.

Jory retired from Actors Theatre in 2000. That fall, he joined the faculty at the University of Washington School of Drama as Professor of Acting and Directing. Also, in 2000, Jory was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://old.post-gazette.com/magazine/20010201people3.asp|title=Theater family comes together to celebrate Hall of Fame honorees|publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|accessdate=February 15, 2014|archive-date=November 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117170541/http://old.post-gazette.com/magazine/20010201people3.asp|url-status=dead}} He is the President's Chair of the Performing Arts Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Utah, the University of Louisville, and Bellarmine University.

Asked if Jane Martin's identity will be revealed after her death, Jory has stated with a laugh, "That's a press conference no one will come to. By the time I die, no one will care anyway."{{Cite web |url=http://www.hartnell.cc.ca.us/westernstage/press_releases/Anton/antonarticle.htm |title="A Two Decade Old Mystery: Who is Jane Martin?" |access-date=2010-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100408111911/http://www.hartnell.cc.ca.us/westernstage/press_releases/Anton/antonarticle.htm |archive-date=2010-04-08 |url-status=dead }}

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• [http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=1873 The Gift of the Magi] Playscripts, Inc.
• [https://www.brookpub.com/default.aspx?pg=sd&st=GODDESS+GAP+YEAR Goddess Gap Year] Brooklyn Publishers
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• 20/20 : twenty one-act plays from twenty years of the Humana Festival / edited by Michele Volansky and Michael Bigelow Dixon; foreword by Jon Jory. Smith and Kraus, Lyme, NH {{ISBN|978-1-880399-98-9}}
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• Tips. ideas for directors Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, 2002, {{ISBN|978-1-57525-241-4}}
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• Pride and Prejudice: A Romantic Comedy Playscripts Inc, 2006
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• Love, Death and the Prom Dramatic Publishing, 1991, {{ISBN|978-0-87129-120-2}}

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• [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsJ/jory-jon.php Biographical article on The Playwrights Database]

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