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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Somebody Jones is currently dramaturging a play around sisterhood and grief for a 2025 production (more info soon).

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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.