Somebody Jones
Writer | 2022 Bursary
The bursary supported the development of a verbatim piece challenging the ‘absent Black father’ stereotype.
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Since receiving the bursary…
Somebody Jones is a Los Angeles–native playwright and dramaturg, currently living, working, and dreaming in London. Jones is currently the Dramaturg & Cultural Consultant for Deep Azure by Chadwick Boseman, premiering at The Globe in February 2026, and is under commission with Clean Break and the Belgrade Theatre.
Jones’s work celebrates and champions Black culture in all of its charms and complexities, working across the genres of horror, magical realism, verbatim theatre, and, most recently, Black fantasy.
Jones’s debut play, How I Learned to Swim, premiered in 2024 at Roundabout at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before touring to Brixton House and Bristol Old Vic. In 2021, SWIM was a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting and shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award. In 2022, Jones won the Tony Craze Award for All My Friends are Dead.
As a dramaturg, Jones worked on Wanted by Eleanor Higgins, which premiered at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and All the Happy Things by Naomi Denny, which enjoyed a run at Soho Theatre in April 2025.
