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Christine Jones

Christine Jones is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist working in theater, opera, public art, and digital media. Beyond her Broadway, Off-Broadway, and West End Scenic Design, including The Outsiders (with AMP, Tony Nomination) Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Tony and Olivier Awards), American Idiot (Tony Award), and Spring Awakening (Tony Nomination), Jones is invested in inclusive public art and the wide reach of the digital realm. Her critically acclaimed initiative Theatre for One, a mobile performance space designed for a single audience member and actor designed in collaboration with LOT-EK Architects, has held residencies at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Brookfield Arts, Cork Midsummer Festival, the Times Square Alliance for Public Art, and universities across the globe. 

From curating Radiohead’s digital art exhibition KID AMNESIA, to designing La Traviata and Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera, Jones works across mediums and genres. She conceived and co-directed SOCIAL! the social distance dance club with Steven Hoggett and David Byrne (Time Out's Best Event of 2021) at the Park Avenue Armory, where she is an artist-in-residence, and directed Queen of the Night, an immersive nightclub dining experience at the Paramount Hotel (Drama Desk Award for Best Unique Experience). Her video piece, Chorus of Us, was exhibited in the Armory’s digital celebration 100 Years, 100 Women, and her designs were featured in Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance at the Lincoln Center Library for Performing Arts.

Jones’ forthcoming project which she adapted and is co-directing, Hamlet Hail to the Thief, a groundbreaking fusion of Shakespeare's masterpiece scored by Thom Yorke, is to open at the Manchester International Festival and the RSC in 2025. 

Alongside Brett Banakis, Jones started the collective AMP Scenography, which aims to amplify and support emerging and underrepresented designers through equitable collaborations. AMP’s debut is the musical adaptation of The Outsiders, co-designed with Tatiana Kahvegian and currently on Broadway. The collective will feature a different designer joining Jones and Banakis on each project.

Jones served as the Denzel Washington Guest Chairperson for Fordham University’s Theatre Department, received an Obie for Sustained Excellence, and was honored with an Award of Distinction from Montreal’s Concordia University. She has lectured at Princeton University and currently teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.