Sukari Jones

Sukari Jones is a playwright and musical theater lyricist most interested in the intersection of race and power in the United States as seen through a magical or sci-fi lens, creating impossible theater that necessarily centers people of color–in particular Black femmes. B.A. Vassar College, M.F.A. NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Memberships: WP Lab, BMI Musical Theater Workshop, The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group. Productions/Development: The Public Theater, Cherry Lane Theater, Lincoln Center, Lark Play Development Center, Barrington Stage Company, Joe’s Pub, Prospect Theater Company, Feinstein’s/54 Below, National Alliance of Musical Theatre Conference and Goodspeed Opera House. Fellowships/Residencies: The MacDowell Colony, W.K. Rose (Vassar College), Catwalk Art Residency, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center National Music Theatre Conference INCUBATOR residency, NAMT Festival of New Musicals. Commissions: Atlantic Theater Company, Barrington Stage Company. www.sukarijones.com