![]() ![]() Shonni Enelow: Daniel, I would love to start by talking about where we are right now. Jones received a Bistro Award for Outstanding Performance Artistry for Jomama Jones, and a Franky Award from the Prelude Festival in recognition of long-term, extraordinary impact on contemporary theatre and performance. Daniel has been a Mellon Creative Research Fellow at the University of Washington, a Hume Fellow at Occidental College, a Fellow at the Hemispheric Institute at NYU, and has been in residence at a number of colleges and universities across the United States, currently as a Producing Artist at CalArts’s Center for New Performance and UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance. Jones was the lead artist on five projects awarded support by the MAP Fund and is a NEFA National Theatre Project grantee. Daniel is a TED Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, a Doris Duke Artist Award, an Alpert Award in the Arts, a USA Artist Fellowship, an Arts Matters grant, an inaugural Creative Capital Grant, a McKnight National Residency and Commission, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, a NEA/TCG Playwriting Residency, a Jerome Fellowship, and a Many Voices Playwriting Fellowship. He has also recorded six albums of original songs as Jomama Jones, and his current project, significantly expands his digital media presence.ģDaniel’s many honors include a PEN America Laura Pels Foundation Theatre Award in 2021. ![]() Paul, an associate company member of Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis, an alumnus of New Dramatists, and was a company member of Frontera Hyde Park Theater in Austin. He is a company member of Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Patrick Johnson, Erik Ehn, Renita Martin, and Shay Youngblood, among others. ![]() He has directed world-premieres of new plays and performance pieces by E. Recent productions of his work include: Radiate (Soho Rep and National Tour) Black Light (Public Theater, Greenwich House Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Penumbra Theatre) Duat (Soho Rep) An Integrator’s Manual (La MaMa, etc. In the fall of 2021, we co-conceived and co-taught an interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar together on the playwright Adrienne Kennedy, and I became well acquainted with his rich thinking about experimentation in theater and performance, historical memory, and Black cultural tradition.ĢDaniel’s singular and highly acclaimed body of work comprises plays, performance pieces, recorded music, concerts, music theatre events, essays, and long-form improvisations. But I had been a fan of his work long before, particularly his performances as his alter-ego, the glittering diva, singer, and monologist Jomama Jones, who is legendary in the downtown New York theater and performance scene. 1I met Daniel at Fordham University in New York, where I teach in the English Department and where he taught until December 2021 in the Theatre program. ![]()
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