User:Ashlar/Venzella Jones

Black actress and director

Graduate of the King's School of Oratory - first black - only black graduatevas at 1923 https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/85858241/?terms=venzella%20jones&match=1

Organised the Imperial Art Players about 1924 https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/40008425/?terms=venzella%20jones&match=1

Noted director of many Broadway productions

Only female head of a unit of the Federal Theatre Project Director of the WPA Federal Theatre Project - First production, "Sweet Land" Sept 1936 Director of the Federal Theatre Project’s Negro Youth Theatre.

Dramatic teacher at Rust College in Holly Springs, Miss - student, Alvin Childress - student, Alice Childress

Negro Theater, NY (possibly Brookly)

Morgan College Dramatic Club Led by Jones (June 1923)

Vanessa Newsome/Newson Jones

Often described as a reader/dramatic reader

Husband, Solomon Jones

Student, Juanita Hannon