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Walton Jones
Walton Jones

Walton Jones

Walton Jones is a 1975 graduate of the Yale School of Drama. As a teacher of acting, directing and playwriting, he has served on the faculty at Yale School of Drama and University of California, San Diego, and currently serves at Colorado State University.

He has directed twice on Broadway, six plays off-Broadway, including the American premiere of Howard Barker’s No End of Blame at Manhattan Theatre Club, and over 60 plays in more than 20 regional theatres from Cambridge to Fairbanks and productions in Soviet Russia and Tokyo. He directed world-premiere productions of plays by Thomas Babe, Lanford Wilson, Naomi Iizuka, José Rivera, Arthur Kopit, Jim Yoshimura and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights Sam Shepard, David Mamet, John Pielmeier, Derek Walcott and Christopher Durang.

Among the many actors Mr. Jones has directed are Meryl Streep, Roc Dutton, John Turturro, Tony Shaloub, Nathan Lane, Liev Schreiber, Angie Bassett, Christopher Walken, Jason Alexander, Michael Gross, Lindsey Crouse, Linda Hunt, Sigourney Weaver, Peter MacNicol, Frances Conroy, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Lewis Black, Mariel Hemingway, John Goodman, Christopher Lloyd, Kevin Kline, Paul Guilfoyle, Bill Sadler, Athol Fugard, Max Wright, William H. Macy, Ed O’Neill and Tony Award-winning stage actor Jefferson Mays.

Mr. Jones was a staff director at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference from 1980 until 1990 and directed regularly for the Yale Rep, Arena Stage and the American Repertory Theatre. He is the author of The 1940s Radio Hour and A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol, both published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals.

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