Jamie DeWolf
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| Born |
Jamie Kennedy October 28, 1977 Eureka, California, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Slam poet, spoken word, comedian, storyteller, showman, filmmaker |
| Notable work |
Solo Poems:
with The Suicide Kings:
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| Awards | 2003 San Francisco Bay Guardian "Best of the Bay" award Grand Slam Winner National Poetry Slam |
| Website | jamiedewolf |
Solo Poems:
with The Suicide Kings:
Jamie DeWolf (born October 28, 1977) is an American film director, writer, slam poet, spoken word artist, and circus ringmaster from Oakland, California.
DeWolf is best known for his early career as a slam poetry champion, his award winning films for Youth Speaks Bigger Picture Project, live tours with the performance trio The Suicide Kings, hosting the monthly Tourettes Without Regrets at the Oakland Metro OperaHouse, and for his work as a producer and performer on NPR's Snap Judgment. DeWolf has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry, 60 Minutes, UPN, Inside Edition, and CBS. DeWolf directed, wrote and starred in the feature film Smoked. The Movie (2012).
He is also the great-grandson of author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and an outspoken critic of the Church of Scientology. In 2000 he hosted the first ever anti-Scientology summit in Clearwater, Florida. He was named one of the "Top 25 People Crippling Scientology" by The Village Voice in 2011.
DeWolf was born in Eureka, California. Raised Baptist, DeWolf was a “hardcore Christian kid” who hoped to become a minister. At the age of six, his pastor handed him a book titled The Kingdom of the Cults. It referred to contemporary religious movements, one of which stuck out: Scientology, founded to his surprise by his own great grandfather, L. Ron Hubbard. Since that point, DeWolf was fascinated with his ancestor's legacy, reading his books, and citing Hubbard's legacy as his inspiration to become an artist “I remember idolising L Ron as a kid, and I remember asking my mom all the time why couldn’t I meet him,” admits DeWolf. “I didn’t know at that point that he had created a religion, I just knew when I went into a bookstore I could find books by him – he was evidence to me that you could be a writer simply by your will alone. Outside of this man running this crazy church and brainwashing millions of people, at the same time he was just another family member,”
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