1. Jamie DeWolf was born on October 28,1977 and is an American slam poet, film director, writer, spoken word artist, and circus ringmaster from Oakland, California.
20 Facts About Jamie DeWolf
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Jamie DeWolf has appeared on HBO's Def Poetry, 60 Minutes, UPN, Inside Edition, and CBS.
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Jamie DeWolf directed, wrote and starred in the feature film Smoked.
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Jamie DeWolf is the great-grandson of author and Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard and an outspoken critic of the Church of Scientology.
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Jamie DeWolf was named one of the "Top 25 People Crippling Scientology" by The Village Voice in 2011.
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Since that point, Jamie DeWolf became fascinated with his ancestor's legacy, reading his books, and citing Hubbard's legacy as his inspiration to become an artist.
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Jamie DeWolf found himself going to open-mic sessions but it was only when he found poetry slams that he came into his own.
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Jamie DeWolf has since become a National Poetry Slam Champion, the Berkeley Grand Slam Champion, a YouthSpeaks Mentor, a featured performer on HBO's Def Poetry Jam hosted by Mos Def, appearing in Season Three with his poem "Grim Fairy Tale", and taping for Season Five with Dave Chappelle and Lauryn Hill.
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Jamie DeWolf's work has been featured on 60 Minutes, UPN and NPR.
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Jamie DeWolf coached the Youth Speaks team twice, one of which was featured on Brave New Voices on HBO hosted by Common and Rosario Dawson.
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On December 03,2020, Jamie DeWolf announced this would be the final Tourettes Without Regrets and the monthly show would continue under the name Ruckus and Rumpus Revival.
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Beyond his work with spoken word poetry, Jamie DeWolf has established himself as a showman and performer in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Jamie DeWolf appears as the regular host for not only Tourettes Without Regrets, but annual festivals such as The East Bay Express Film Awards, Briefs Erotic Film Festival, Scream Film Festival, The Folsom Street Fair, and the Sacramento Horror Film Festival.
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Jamie DeWolf worked as a producer for Oakland-based NPR's Snap Judgement, where he produced a number of stories, and performed several of his own, including The God and the Man, which drew international attention, and The Girl in the Hallway, chronicling the tragedy of Xiana Fairchild, who at age 7 in 1998 was snatched off the street and killed while she lived in the same apartment building as Jamie DeWolf.
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An ambitious undertaking, Jamie DeWolf viewed Smoked as an exploration of his city's culture.
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In 2014, Jamie DeWolf worked with Youth Speaks' newly formed Off Page Project to create three pivotal films.
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Jamie DeWolf told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2001 that his mother and girlfriend were visited by Scientology agents, who asked about his comments on Scientology in his poetry and his appearance at a November 2000 benefit for the Lisa McPherson Trust in Clearwater, Florida.
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Jamie DeWolf is an outspoken critic of the Church of Scientology.
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Jamie DeWolf was very intelligent, very sort of evil, malicious; a sort of overman, his will against the world.
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In 2015, Jamie DeWolf incorporated his monthly show in a special game show aimed at Scientology, including 'a conversation with journalist Tony Ortega, who appeared in HBO's documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, and Paulette Cooper, author of The Scandal of Scientology.