THESE PAPER BULLETS! Creator Rolin Jones Mixes Theatre, TV in New 20th Century Fox Deal

The Hartford Courant reports that THESE PAPER BULLETS! creator and TV writer Rolin Jones has signed a two-year contract with 20th Century FOX Television to develop projects via his production company New Neighborhood.

Also part of the deal is funding to launch live theatrical shows in site-specific venues across the country -- "whether it's on a regional stage, in a bar, or even on a train going coast to coast".

"It's not your grandfather's theater company," Jones told the Courant. "New Neighborhood is project-based. We find the work, then delegate and get the hell out of each other's way. We don't need to get 30 people on a conference call to get things done. It's mostly passion reigns, following the Quaker Prayer Meeting where you sit and wait for the spirit to take over, where someone says, 'We are doing this!' and everyone looks around and goes, 'They must believe it so it must be good and we're all in.'"

New Neighborhood will launch its website, preview its upcoming shows and more at the Festival of New American Plays in Louisville this weekend.

Then, THESE PAPER BULLETS!, with new songs by Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, kicks off the Geffen Playhouse's 2015-16 season in Los Angeles before heading to the Atlantic Theater off-Broadway.

New Neighborhood's "non-mission" statement reads:

"Born out of the Low Brow/Hi Fi 2014 Yale Rep production of These Paper Bullets! and the unintended financial backing of Rupert Murdoch, NEW NEIGHBORHOOD is a theater and television company whose sincerity and authenticity are so combustible, it cannot be housed under one roof for too long without doing severe structural damage. With new work, bruised work, all-singing, all-dancing, foul-mouthed musical work NEW NEIGHBORHOOD seeks to harvest the organs of its audience and sell them back to their owners within the time houselights dim and rise, the DVR records and you delete. NEW NEIGHBORHOOD is a particular ordinance of Actors, Designers, Directors, Dramaturgs (all the hot D's!), Musicians, Graphic Novelists, Producers, Writers, Widows, Widowers (all the lousy W's) and bad, browned-on-both-sides Balladeers. NEW NEIGHBORHOOD is the cocktail party that spills barefooted onto the lawn! NEW NEIGHBORHOOD is the stolen painting that washes up on shore! NEW NEIGHBORHOOD is the lovechild of Electric Light Orchestra and Tonya Harding! NEW NEIGHBORHOOD finds a show, produces the shit outta of it, and disappears into a cloud of train smoke! The. End.

In the year of our Fictitious Business Name 2015, NEW NEIGHBORHOOD migrates to Louisville, Kentucky; Stockbridge, Massachusetts; Los Angeles, California; and New York, New York. Fire Marshalls have been alerted."

After New Neighborhood hits the ground running, Jones is set to shift his focus to DEPENDABLE DITTMERS, WE SELL CARS, a pilot for FOX based on the "129 Cars" episode of NPR's THIS AMERICAN LIFE.

Jones also co-executive produced TV's SMASH and has written for BOARDWALK EMPIRE, WEEDS, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, UNITED STATES OF TARA and more.