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Somebody Jones is a Los Angeles native playwright/dramaturg currently living, working, and dreaming in London. 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. Somebody Jones was Paines Plough's Playwright Fellow in 2024, won the Tony Craze Award in 2023 for her play ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD, and was shortlisted for the George Devine Award in 2023. Formerly, Somebody was 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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