Jennie Franks
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Jennie Franks is an English
England
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 photographer, actress, and playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

. She may be best known as Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull (band)
Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...

 frontman Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson may refer to:* In music:**Ian Anderson , head of the rock band Jethro Tull**Ian A. Anderson , folk musician and editor of Roots magazine**Ian M...

's first wife, from 1970 to 1974. She is a lyricist (as Jennie Anderson) and wrote the lyrics to the Jethro Tull song "Aqualung
Aqualung (song)
"Aqualung" is a song by the English progressive rock band Jethro Tull, and the title track from their Aqualung album. The song was written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson, and his then-wife Jennie Franks....

".

Franks later moved to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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 and married screenwriter
Screenwriter
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 Jeffrey Price
Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman
Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman are American screenwriters who have worked together on several projects, but are best known for Disney/Amblin's film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.-Filmography:*Trenchcoat *Who Framed Roger Rabbit...

. They relocated to Telluride
Telluride, Colorado
The town of Telluride is the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Colorado. The town is a former silver mining camp on the San Miguel River in the western San Juan Mountains...

, Colorado
Colorado
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 in 1993.

In 1999, Franks made a 28-minute video about AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 in western Colorado titled Soft Smoke, AIDS in the Rural West.

Franks 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
New York City
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in 2008.
Franks started and continues as Artistic Director of the Telluride Playwrights Festival, an annual Theatre Festival each July based in Telluride, Co.
Jennie Franks is referenced in Imdb under Jennifer Anderson, Jennie Anderson, Jennifer Franks and Jennie Franks.
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