Venzella Jones

Venzella Newsome Jones (1893–1973) was a black actress, orator, playwright, drama teacher, and theatre director.

Education and career

Jones was born in Ohio. She attended King's School of Oratory in Pittsburgh, becoming its first black graduate. Later she taught drama at Rust College, Mississippi and at Morgan State College in Baltimore.

She organised the Imperial Art Players in Pittsburgh in 1924 and later formed the eponymous Venzella Jones Repertory Group.

She was the Director of the Federal Theatre Project’s Negro Youth Theatre.

References

Further reading

• Childress, Alice (2011). Perkins, Kathy A. (ed.). Selected Plays. Northwestern University Press. pp. xiv–xv.^{[ISBN missing]}
• Ellett, Ryan (2012). Encyclopedia of Black Radio in the United States, 1921–1955. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc. p. 95. ISBN 978-1476693392. OCLC 1369512406.
• Sewell, Jan; Smout, Claire, eds. (2020). The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage. Springer Nature. pp. 444–446.^{[ISBN missing]}

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