Daniel Alexander Jones

Daniel Alexander Jones (born 1970) is an award-winning American performance artist, playwright, director, essayist and educator.

Jones was born on February 9, 1970 to Georgina Leslie Jones and Arthur Leroy Jones at Wesson Women's Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts.

He studied at Classical High School and became a member of the first graduating class of Springfield Central High School in 1987. Daniel attended Vassar College, graduating with a degree in Africana Studies. He then pursued graduate study at Brown University, completing a Master's Degree in Theatre. At Brown he studied with both John Emigh and Aishah Rahman.

In the year 2000 Jones received the Creative Capital Performing Arts Award. They were also awarded the Alpert Award in the Arts in Theatre in 2006 in recognition of their work.

Jones is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Fordham University on the Lincoln Center Campus. There he currently heads the undergraduate playwriting track, teaches courses in playwriting, solo performance, theatre history, and, cross-listed with African American Studies, teaches a course called Young, Gifted and Black which examines the lives and creative contributions of young artists in the Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement and the current day.