23: Geovonday Jones - Actor, Director, and Educator

Actor Geovonday Jones discusses his financial journey from growing up in St. Louis to moving to New York City and establishing a career of acting, directing, and teaching theatre.

 

Geovonday Jones is an actor, director, and educator based in Brooklyn. He has directed Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Motherf-er with the Hat and Suzan-Lori Park’s In The Blood. Geo has also directed concerts and operas, as well as been an acting coach for opera singers. As an actor he has been in Lynn Nottage’s Sweat and Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother Size.

Currently, Geo is on faculty at The People’s Improv Theatre teaching Scene Study from the BIPOC perspective and is adjunct faculty at Brooklyn College and The City College of New York where he developed the popular course entitled Theatre and Racism.