Jamie Wooten

You can find Jamie's Donor Interview in the July 2025 issue of Encore Extra! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ca_Q1UsqveLR8oF1FR6hzWjvuv0FqG-b/view   Jamie Wooten is a tenor with both DC Chorale and DC Rocks, and resides in Chevy Chase.  Professionally, he enjoyed a 20 plus year career in Hollywood, writing and producing 400 episodes of television, including many seasons of the classic sitcom "The Golden Girls", spending every day laughing with Bea, Rue, Estelle and the deliciously dirty-minded Betty White.  He won the Writers Guild of America Award working with those wonderful women.  He wrote comedy for many others, including George Burns, Cindy Williams, Barbara Mandrell, Tyne Daly, RuPaul, Debbie Reynolds, Dolly Parton and Little Richard.  Today he is part of the writing trio Jones Hope Wooten, the most-produced playwrighting team in America. https://www.joneshopewooten.com/ He is also a BMI songwriter, with many songs recorded by other artists and many tunes placed in television series and feature films. In his life, he has delivered singing telegrams, served as a Cruise Director on Princess Cruises, jet-skied around Bora Bora, performed on Broadway, farmed tobacco in rural North Carolina, climbed to the apex of Angkor Wat, comforted veterans on the shores of Guadalcanal, been complimented by Mel Brooks, saved the lives of feral cats on Kauai, made burritos at Del Taco, sung ballads for Michael Feinstein and yodeled for Melissa Etheridge, snorkeled in the Galapagos, served on the sound crew for the Pope's visit to Los Angeles, broken his leg jumping off a stage, been proposed to at the top of the Eiffel Tower and crashed Ann Miller's funeral. He also has an unnatural affinity for the music of ABBA, and feels Facebook is the worst thing to happen to humanity since the Bubonic Plague, but hey, that's just him...