Jasmine Lee-Jones

Jasmine Lee-Jones, sometimes credited as Jasmine Jones, is a Black British playwright and actress, known for her debut play, seven methods of killing kylie jenner , which premiered at Royal Court Theatre in 2019. Early life and education Lee-Jones was born in 1998 in North London and grew up in South London. She took parts in youth theatres in her teens, starring in Globe Young Players' production of Dido, Queen of Carthage and The Malcontent when she was 16. She was a member of Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers programme from the age of 17.

Lee-Jones went on to study acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, supported by the Laurence Olivier bursary in her final year. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2019.

Career

Playwriting Lee-Jones has had training experiences with Royal Court Theatre from the age of 17 and it was at this venue that she would go on to make her professional debut as a playwright. In 2017, Lee-Jones was selected for a bespoke playwriting programme for young women called "The Andrea Project", in honour of the late playwright Andrea Dunbar. During the six-week programme, organised by Royal Court in collaboration with Out of Joint Theatre Company, Lee-Jones received training and guidance from award-winning playwright Rachel De-lahay, and started writing what was to become seven methods of killing kylie jenner. where it was eventually premiered in 2019. The play has earned Lee-Jones several accolades, notably the Alfred Fagon Award, annually awarded to the best new play by a Black British author. , the United States, The following year, her second full length play, curious, was staged at Soho Theatre, with Lee-Jones also performing in the show.

In 2021, Lee-Jones was a finalist in the inaugural Gold and Ruth Harris Commission competition at the New York Theatre Workshop. The commission had been set up by Tony Award nominated playwright Jeremy O. Harris and awarded each finalist a cash prize of in support of their artistic endeavours. In 2023, Lee-Jones won the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in the Drama category, awarded with a cash prize of .

Screenwriting In 2017, while she was still a student, Lee-Jones was selected for the BBC writers’ room London Voices scheme. Lee-Jones’s piece, batshit, a monologue delivered by Kae Alexander, was included in episode 5 and released exclusively on BBC iPlayer.

Also in 2020, Lee-Jones was commissioned by Young Vic to write a short play in collaboration with the homelessness charity Thames Reach. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and lockdown restrictions, the project had to be adapted and instead a short film was made. Home(body), directed by Milli Bhatia, was released via YouTube with a premiere on 28 January 2021.

In 2021, Lee-Jones was selected for BFI Flare x BAFTA Crew, a mentoring programme for LGBTQ filmmakers. Her mentor on the programme was Terence Nance. In 2022, Lee-Jones took residency at MacDowell, where she worked on a screen adaptation of her 2021 play, curious.

Acting As an actress, Lee-Jones has appeared in E4's Dead Pixels (2021) as well as Black British vernacular English.

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