Somebody Jones

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 won Soho Theatre’s Tony Craze Award in 2022 for the play, ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD. Jones’s debut play, HOW I LEARNED TO SWIM was shortlisted for the Women's Playwriting Prize and the George Devine Award and premiered at Paines Plough’s Roundabout at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2024. The play was subsequently shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award and then went on to transfer to Brixton House and Bristol Old Vic.

Jones’s work celebrates and champions Black culture in all of its charms and complexities. The playwright primarily works within the genres of horror, magical realism, verbatim, and recently, Black fantasy.

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