Episode 14 - Daniel Alexander Jones, Pt. 1

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Energy Worker. Ritual Maker. My Theatrical Jazz Soul Brother - kin at first sight. Family!
Daniel is our very own Divine Connector, always helping us be our best selves doing our best work/in community with rigor and Joy.

Daniel’s numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Doris Duke Performing Artist Award,  Alpert Award in the Arts, MAP Fund, Creative Capital and USA Artist Fellowship, to name a few. 

Daniel is channeler of Jomama Jones - a Afromysitcal Soul Singer. Check out Jomama speaking about her influences HERE. And Jomama’s film, Bones HERE.

In this interview Daniel speaks on Intentional showing up...of being born into a community - as well as a family . . . of being from a place where women being in charge - modeling precision of perception. He speaks about people in his life that took risks in the service of community - and - the costs-the dangers-the deep desire to DO with other people in mind.

This interview was so epic I need to present it in two parts. Part two drops on 12/23.

More about Daniel and all dem Guests HERE.
Visit Daniel’s website HERE.

Daniel Alexander Jones exemplifies the artist as energy worker. Daniel’s wildflower body of original work includes plays, performance pieces, recorded music, concerts, music theatre events, essays, and long-form improvisations. Energy is his true medium. The Herb Alpert Foundation wrote that he “creates multi-dimensional experiences where bodies, minds, emotions, voices, and spirits conjoin, shimmer, and heal.” 

Jones’s critically-acclaimed performance pieces include Black Light (Public Theater, Greenwich House Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Penumbra Theatre); Duat (Soho Rep); and Radiate (Soho Rep and National Tour). Jones has recorded five albums of original songs as his alter-ego, Jomama Jones. 

Jones is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, the recipient of a 2019 Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, is a Doris Duke Artist Award recipient, and was a Mellon Foundation Creative Research Fellow at the University of Washington Jones is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Fordham University where he runs the Playwriting Track.