BIO

CHRISTINE JONES is a theatre artist designer director.

ARTIST: Creator and Artistic Director of Theatre for One, a portable private performing arts space designed with LOT-EK Architects, as well as co-creator, with Jenny Koons, of a digital platform designed by OpenEndedGroup. Chorus of Us, a video piece included in Park Avenue Armory’s online celebration 100 Years, 100 Women. Curator, Kid A Mnesia, an upside-down digital/analogue universe created from original artwork and recordings by Radiohead. 

DESIGNER: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, (Tony and Olivier Awards for Scenic Design). American Idiot, (Tony Award). Other Broadway, Off Broadway, and West End Scenic Design credits include: Spring Awakening, (Tony Nomination), Macbeth,(starrting Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga), Birthday Candles, Cyrano, (with music by The National),  The Cher Show (co-designed with Brett J. Banakis); Hands on a Hardbody; On a Clear Day; The Green Bird, with director Julie Taymor (Drama Desk Nomination); and Everyday Rapture, starring Sherie-Renee Scott. With Banakis, Jones designed Close To You: Bacharach Reimagined, first at New York Theatre Workshop and then in London at the Menier Chocolate Factory before moving to the West End; Coraline, adapted from Neil Gaman’s popular book with music by Stephen Merritt; The Book of Longing, based on the poems of Leonard Cohen, with music by Philip Glass (Lincoln Center Festival); The Onion Cellar, (Elliot Norton Award,) which she co-created with director Marcus Stern and The Dresden Dolls (and for which she transformed a black box theater into the 360-degree cabaret space it is today); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park); Burn This, starring Ed Norton, Catherine Keener, Ty Burrell and Dallas Roberts (Signature Theatre); and True Love, for which she created the bygone Zipper Space, once infamous for its use of car seats in the audience. 

DIRECTOR: Queen of the Night, at the Paramount Hotel, a sensational immersive nightclub dining experience, which won a drama desk for Best Unique Experience, and which New York Magazine called the “Hottest Nightlife Experience in Town.” Social! the social distance dance club conceived and co-directed with Steven Hoggett and David Byrne, for The Park Avenue Armory. (named Time Out's Best Event of 2021) 

Her designs were featured in the 2008 exhibition Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance at Lincoln Center Library for Performing Arts. In 2013, she served as Denzel Washington Guest Chairperson for Fordham University’s Theatre Department. She collaborated with The Windmill Factory as a Creative Direction Consultant for The Future of Storytelling (FoST) 2014 Conference. In 2015, Jones won an Obie for Sustained Excellence. In 2010, she was honored with an Award of Distinction from Montreal’s Concordia University. Jones has lectured at Princeton University and currently teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Currently designing The Devil Wears Prada Musical, with Brett Banakis, and a musical adaptation of Norma Rae, as well as The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, at The Mark Taper Forum, and The Bark of Millions, with Taylor Mac, premier TBD.

As part of the collective AMP that started with Brett Banakis to elevate emerging designers, she is designing a musical adaptation of The Outsiders, featuring emerging designer Tatiana Kahvegian.