# Jennie Franks > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jennie_Franks > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jennie_Franks.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Franks > Source revision: 1229946350 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) British actor, playwright and photographer Jennie Franks **Jennie Franks** is an English playwright and filmmaker. She was the first wife of [Jethro Tull](/source/Jethro_Tull_(band)) frontman [Ian Anderson](/source/Ian_Anderson), and wrote some of the lyrics for the Jethro Tull song "[Aqualung](/source/Aqualung_(song))" (1971). ## Career Franks co-wrote and directed an educational film about the effects of [AIDS](/source/AIDS) in rural Colorado titled *Soft Smoke, AIDS in the Rural West*.[1][2] She 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 in 2008.[3] She filmed *The Ballad of Arthur Muldoon* with [Terry Jones](/source/Terry_Jones).[4] Franks founded SPARKy Productions in 1998, a group dedicated to highlighting social justice issues via creative performance, and acts as its artistic director.[5] The organization produced the annual Telluride Playwrights Festival.[5] The film festival culminated in 2016 with Franks' production of *The Hispanic Women's Project*.[6] ## Life Franks was the first wife of [Jethro Tull](/source/Jethro_Tull_(band)) frontman [Ian Anderson](/source/Ian_Anderson), from 1970 to 1974. She wrote some of the lyrics for the Jethro Tull song "[Aqualung](/source/Aqualung_(song))" (1971). Ian Anderson, the principal songwriter for Jethro Tull, has said, "[she] in fact was responsible for lyrics in the first couple of verses ... I suppose in total probably about half of the lyrics were words or word associations that she had come up with," based on pictures of homeless men Franks had taken as a photography student.[7] "And so she wrote some words and we fashioned that into lyrics. Some of the lines were definitely not lines I would have written. Like, “Snot is running down his nose” was not one of mine [laughs], it was one of hers."[8] Franks later[*[when?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items)*] moved to Los Angeles and married [screenwriter](/source/Screenwriter) and novelist [Jeffrey Price](/source/Jeffrey_Price_and_Peter_S._Seaman). They relocated to [Telluride, Colorado](/source/Telluride%2C_Colorado) in 1993.[1] Franks and her second husband have two daughters.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Rocky_1999_7_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Rocky_1999_7_1-1) *Denver Rocky Mountain News*. Denver, Colorado: 8 November 1999. p. 7.A 1. **[^](#cite_ref-HIV_Plus_p._12_2-0)** [*HIV Plus*](https://books.google.com/books?id=jmUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12). Here Publishing. p. 12. Retrieved 6 September 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Broadway World](http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=24828) Retrieved on 7 March 2008. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Telluride_Inside..._and_Out_2009_4-0)** ["3rd annual Telluride Playwrighting Festival opens with reading July 1"](https://www.tellurideinside.com/2009/06/3rd-annual-telluride-playwrighting-festival-opens-with-reading-july-1.html). *Telluride Inside... and Out*. 29 June 2009. Retrieved 6 September 2020. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-TDP_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-TDP_5-1) ["Mountain Confidential: Jennie Franks"](https://www.telluridenews.com/the_watch/article_b7834aea-3145-11e5-b3c7-032bec626ea9.html). *The Watch*. Telluride Daily Planet. 23 July 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Telluride_Inside..._and_Out_2016_6-0)** ["The Hispanic Women's Project: Inspired, Inspiring, GO!"](https://www.tellurideinside.com/2016/07/the-hispanic-womens-project-go.html). *Telluride Inside... and Out*. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Who is Jennie Anderson, the person credited on the *Aqualung* album as the author of the title track?](http://remus.rutgers.edu/JethroTull/FAQ.html#Q7) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20121022154806/http://remus.rutgers.edu/JethroTull/FAQ.html) 22 October 2012 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), Jethro Tull FAQ. Retrieved 26 October 2012. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson: My Life in 10 Songs"](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-my-life-in-10-songs-666164/aqualung-666169/). *[Rolling Stone](/source/Rolling_Stone)*. 27 June 2018. Authority control databases: Artists MusicBrainz --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jennie Franks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Franks) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Franks?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.