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Kwesiu Jones, MFA 2021

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Area of StudyActingHeight 6'3Hair Color BlackEye Color BrownVoice BaritoneEmail kwesiu_jones@hotmail.comWebsites kwesiujones.comWatch video

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Experience Name:
MFA Shakespeare Projects

Show:
Macbeth

Character:
Macbeth

Playhouse / Producer:
School of Drama, The New School

Playwright:
William Shakespeare

Director:
Nina Fry


Experience Name:
MFA New Visions/Directors Projects

Show:
The Connection

Character:
Cowboy

Playhouse / Producer:
School of Drama, The New School

Playwright:
Jack Gelber

Director:
Nina Fry


Experience Name:
MTA Radio Plays

Show:
Episode 10: Time Square

Character:
Teacher

Playhouse / Producer:
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Company:
Emily Daly

Playwright:
Ludmila de Brito


Experience Name:
MFA Writers Projects

Show:
The Givens

Character:
Simeon

Playhouse / Producer:
School of Drama, The New School

Playwright:
natyna bean

Director:
Francisco J. Rivera Rodriguez


Experience Name:
MFA Mainstage Production

Show:
Spell No. 7

Character:
Ross

Playhouse / Producer:
School of Drama, The New School

Playwright:
Ntozake Shange

Director:
Nigel Semaj


Experience Name:
MFA Mainstage Production

Show:
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Character:
El Fayoumy

Playhouse / Producer:
School of Drama, The New School

Playwright:
Stephen Adly Guirgis

Director:
Melissa Crespo


Experience Name:
Mannes Opera Production

Show:
Street Scene

Character:
Steve Sankey

Playhouse / Producer:
Mannes School of Music, The New School

Playwright:
Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), Elmer Rice (book)

Director:
Chloe Treat


Experience Name:
Regional Theatre

Show:
The Bluest Eye

Character:
Soaphead Church

Playhouse / Producer:
Miles Playhouse

Company:
Phantom Projects

Playwright:
Toni Morrison, adapted by Lydia Diamond

Director:
Janet Miller


Experience Name:
Regional Theatre

Show:
To Kill a Mockingbird

Character:
Tom Robinson

Playhouse / Producer:
La Mirada Theatre

Company:
Phantom Projects

Playwright:
Harper Lee

Director:
Janet Miller

Training

Acting: Patrice Johnson, Scott Whitehurst, Caymichael Patten, Stephen Brown-Fried, Kathryn Rossetter

Voice: Andrea Haring, Alba Quezada, Susan Cameron, Patricia Fletcher

Movement: Nora Woolley, Teva Bjerken, Cynthia Reynolds, Jean Taylor, Shelley Cellak, Erica Fae, LaTrisa Harper, Shannon Stowe

Dialects, Grotowski, Alexander Technique, Clown, Masque, Dance

Education

MFA in Acting, School of Drama, College of Performing Arts at The New School

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