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Daniel Alexander Jones, aka "Jomama Jones," on gender, race, and identity

Daniel Alexander Jones, aka "Jomama Jones," on gender, race, and identity

Update: 2019-12-10
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If you visit the Fordham Theatre webpage, you'll find classes with titles such as acting; theater history; flying solo; and young, gifted and black, all offered by one Daniel Alexander Jones.

And indeed, if you sign up for these classes, Jones, a member of the faculty since 2008, will artfully guide you through your paces in these aspects of stagecraft.

If, however, you visited the Connelly Theater, Joe’s Pub, or any of the myriad theaters where Jones has performed over the last decade, you’d have encountered a very different person: Jomama Jones.

Since her debut in 2011, Jomama, a radiant soul diva with her own distinct backstory and career, has been a vehicle for Jones to explore profound questions of race and gender. In 2011, the New York Times described Jomama’s performance as “glowing, making it hard not to surrender to this sequin-encrusted earth mother’s soulful embrace.” And in 2015, Jones won a Doris Duke Artist Award, which featured a $225,000 unrestricted, multiyear grant.

So what has Jomama been up to these days? Fordham News tracked Daniel down to find out.
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Daniel Alexander Jones, aka "Jomama Jones," on gender, race, and identity

Daniel Alexander Jones, aka "Jomama Jones," on gender, race, and identity

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