About

​Somebody Jones is a Los Angeles native playwright/dramaturg, currently living, working, and dreaming in London. Jones received a bachelor’s in Theatre with an Emphasis in Playwrighting from the University of Southern California and a master’s in Dramaturgy and Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths University of London. Jones’s work celebrates and champions Black culture in all of its charms and complexities. The playwright/dramaturg primarily works within the genres of horror, magical realism, verbatim, and recently, Black fantasy.

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Jones's debut play, HOW I LEARNED TO SWIM premiered at Roundabout at the Edinburgh Fringe and then toured to Brixton House and Bristol Old Vic. SWIM was a finalist for the Women's Prize for Playwriting and shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award in 2021. In 20202, Jones won the Tony Craze Award for the play ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD. 

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Formerly, Somebody Jones was a Paines Plough's Playwright Fellow (2023/2024), a part of Soho Theatre's Writers' Lab (London, 2022), an Artistic Associate with Nouveau Riche (London, 2022), a Creative Associate at Jermyn Street Theatre (London, 2021), and a part of Boston Court's first Playwrights' Group (Los Angeles, 2021).

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The name Somebody Jones means the more you run from your past, the more you'll run into it.