Play on jody

By Candrice Jones

Directed by Kendra Ware

Performances

Saturday, may 17 at 5pm–the medium

Sunday, may 25 at 5pm–TheatreSquared

About the play

Jody is an old Bluesman with a black cough. Is it because of COPD? Is it because of a curse placed on his bloodline during the Civil War? Either way, his daughters, Jodayuh and Jody 5, will have to wrestle with the spiritual and financial complications of a family legacy etched in lust, music, and blood.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Candrice Jones, a Steinberg and Kesselring Award-winning playwright, is from Dermott, Arkansas. Her mission is to write love letters for women of the American South. A VONA Playwriting alum and CalArts Critical Studies MFA recipient, she has been a Jerome and Many Voices fellow at the Playwrights’ Center, MacDowell’s Colony of the Arts fellow, and a Djerassi Resident Playwright. In the 2020-21 season, Candrice received virtual commissions from People’s Light Theater and Actors Theater of Louisville as well as reading opportunities from Theatrical Outfit, National New Play Network, and San Francisco Playhouse. Her play FLEX, recently performed at Lincoln Center Theatre and named a 2023 NY Times Critic’s Pick, was developed at VONA, the Arkansas New Play Festival at TheatreSquared, Ground Floor, and the Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival. The play received a co-world premiere from TheatreSquared of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Theatrical Outfit of Atlanta, Georgia, in 2022 and was subsequently produced at Lincoln Center Theatre. In the spring of 2022, Candrice’s play A Medusa Thread was developed in UC Santa Barbara’s Launchpad Series. Candrice currently lives in NYC with her daughter Zora where she was recently awarded the Spirit Maya Angelou award by the Celebrate! Maya Project.