Black actress and director
Graduate of the King's School of Oratory - first black - only black graduatevas at 1923 https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/85858241/?terms=venzella%20jones&match=1
Organised the Imperial Art Players about 1924 https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/40008425/?terms=venzella%20jones&match=1
Noted director of many Broadway productions
Only female head of a unit of the Federal Theatre Project Director of the WPA Federal Theatre Project - First production, "Sweet Land" Sept 1936 Director of the Federal Theatre Project’s Negro Youth Theatre.
Dramatic teacher at Rust College in Holly Springs, Miss - student, Alvin Childress[1] - student, Alice Childress
Negro Theater, NY (possibly Brookly)
Morgan College Dramatic Club Led by Jones (June 1923)
Vanessa Newsome/Newson Jones
Often described as a reader/dramatic reader
Husband, Solomon Jones
Student, Juanita Hannon
- ^ Burnett, Monroe (10 June 1938). "Childress Unmoved by Plaundits of Critics". The Dayton forum: 5. Retrieved 14 September 2022.