Sarah Jones is an American playwright, actress, and poet.Called "a
master of the genre" by The New York Times, Jones has written and
performed four multi-character solo shows, including Bridge & Tunnel,
which was produced Off-Broadway in by Oscar-winner Meryl Streep, and
then on to Broadway in where it received a Special Tony Award.Jones
was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to an African American father and
mother of mixed Euro-American and Caribbean descent. Her multicultural
background and upbringing in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Queens, New
York, influenced her development into what The New Yorker termed a
"multicultural mynah bird [who] lays our mongrel nation before us with
gorgeous, pitch-perfect impersonations of the rarely heard or
dramatized."Jones attended The United Nations International School and
Bryn Mawr College where she was the recipient of the Mellon Minority
Fellowship. She originally planned a career as a lawyer, but left
college early and eventually found her way to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
in New York, where she began competing in poetry slams.[clarification
needed]
master of the genre" by The New York Times, Jones has written and
performed four multi-character solo shows, including Bridge & Tunnel,
which was produced Off-Broadway in by Oscar-winner Meryl Streep, and
then on to Broadway in where it received a Special Tony Award.Jones
was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to an African American father and
mother of mixed Euro-American and Caribbean descent. Her multicultural
background and upbringing in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Queens, New
York, influenced her development into what The New Yorker termed a
"multicultural mynah bird [who] lays our mongrel nation before us with
gorgeous, pitch-perfect impersonations of the rarely heard or
dramatized."Jones attended The United Nations International School and
Bryn Mawr College where she was the recipient of the Mellon Minority
Fellowship. She originally planned a career as a lawyer, but left
college early and eventually found her way to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
in New York, where she began competing in poetry slams.[clarification
needed]
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