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Hey readers, it’s me, Suzanne.

Let’s be real, we all love attention (me a tad more than most).

Thought I’d take a moment to grab the digital spotlight and devote a whole page of our joint website to…me.  

Figured it was important to define myself as a separate entity from my awesome twin sister.  After all, we’re not conjoined, there is air between us.

So, here is a lil something about me….

I am a writer and creator of film and television

…I have created several original children’s series concepts, in collaboration with Stephanie. We’ve pitched them to industry giants like:

Disney Interactive Studios

Disney Junior

Sunny Hostin (“The View”) Productions

Out of the Blue Enterprises (“Blue’s Clues”)

Sesame Workshop (pitch deal)

Thirteen/WNET network (pitch deal)

Time Studios (option deal)

Universal Kids network (development deal)

We also brought our kid-centered visions to Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, PBS Kids, and 9Story Media.

Some day one of our TV projects will even make it on the air - actually one kind of did but…well, don’t ask about my Disney experience. 😒

Our documentary memoir!

“The Jones Twins: Bebop Souls in a Muzak World,”is directed by Stephanie, written by me and edited by Emerson Dudley (my talented niece, Stephanie’s daughter). My talented daughter, Sasha Jones, was Archival Manager and Set Decorator.

It recently WON BEST DOCUMENTARY at the Atlanta Short Film Festival!‍ ‍

The doc was also an Official Selection at the 2025 Urbanworld Film Festival and BlackGirlsRock! Film Festival, and the 2026 Big Apple Film Festival, First Time Directors & Writers Edition.  

I’m a vocalist and voiceover artist

I voiced national commercials and was repped by International Creative Management (ICM) agency.

For NYC animation company No Evil, I wrote animated shorts and performed musical and comic voiceovers. I studied voiceover technique with renown radio personality, voice artist and teacher G. Keith Alexander and “Sesame Street” actor and prolific advertising voice, David Langston Smyrl, writer of the iconic line, “Where’s the Beef?”

My twin and I collaborated with art rockers M’lumbo on the soundtrack for the experimental film “System Noise.” We created and performed vocals for the character “Starlett.” The film was an Official Selection at Slamdance Film Festival and NY Independent Film Festival’s (Winner: Best Experimental Film).

With Stephanie, I recorded vocals as part of CalArts’ viral “Lament Project.” 

I recorded the lead vocal on a parody of Madonna’s “Vogue” (“Dope”) by legendary underground recording artist David Peel (“I Love Marijuana”, produced with John Lennon).

I’ve worked in media my whole career

Performing by night, as a NYC artist, I worked  by day - at various publishing, television, and film companies.

An early NYC job was at the legendary Village Voice, as Arts Editor Karen Durbin’s assistant.

I was on staff at PEOPLE Magazine in the News Bureau, and then as a producer at PEOPLE Magazine TV writing an animated segment for Bugs Bunny (my, um hero!) and Michael Jordan produced in collaboration with Warner Bros. Classic Animation.

I was on the Series Programming team at SiTV/NuvoTV (now Fuse Media) network where I co-developed comedy and docu-series, working with TV Executive Producer and creator, Maria Perez-Brown..

I was an assistant at Drop Squad Pictures, which developed and shot Spike Lee’s first non-Spike Lee Joint, “Drop Squad,” along with music videos and commercials.

On FX Network series “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell,” Executive Produced by Chris Rock and Chuck Sklar, I was a producer (tho first I was Chuck’s intern - thanks Chuck!).

I’m one half of The Jones Twins

I created performance work with my identical twin sister, Stephanie. Our acclaimed original performance work. “The Jones Twins do Bebop Muzak” was presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture, by George C. Wolfe and The Public Theatre, Aaron Davis Hall/CUNY, and Franklin Furnace (Emerging Artist Award).

Direction and dramaturgy on this work were provided by Celina Davis, Phyllis Bancroft and Walter Allen Bennett, III.

With Stephanie, I also created performances for CreativeTime (Inside the Brooklyn Bridge), Largo in Los Angeles, Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Hartford’sRealArtWays and Central Park Summerstage in a tribute to the work of avant-garde musician, John Cage. 

As Artists-in-Residence of Voice & Vision Theatre at Bard College, we developed an original musical, "The Superstarlet Shero Show", with Lois Dilivio as composer and arrangements by Janice Lowe, presented at Dixon Place’s Festival of New Musicals at Makor/92nd St Y and Marquee.

We were featured performers/curators at legendary NYC performance space Dixon Place, developing our material, presenting our performances and myriad other artists of color as curators of the performance series “Negritude-a-go-go” and, in collaboration with performer/playwright Jake-ann Jones, “Keepin’ Up wit’ the Joneses.” 

Some of our original work is archived through The New Museum of Contemporary Art on archive.org.

We have also  performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Knitting Factory, CBGB's, Nell’s, Nuyorican Poets Café, P.S. 122, The Kitchen, Ars Nova, St. Mark's Church on the Bowery, on BBC, WBAI and WNYC Radio. At Lincoln Center's "Live Art," we appeared with Blue Man Group. For legendary music producer/impresario Malcolm McLaren, we wrote songs for his CBS Records project, “Charm School.” 

Non-Jones Twins music theatre writing

With actress/writer Kim Wayans and Stephanie, I co-wrote the tween musical "Hello, My Friend" about 3 best friends on the thrilling (and sometimes not-so) verge of puberty.

Composer Janice Lowe, Stephane and I created and performed "Barbie-cide", for White Bird Theatre's "Barbie Project" at the Ohio Theatre in NYC. I portrayed a Barbie doll who was cruelly, comically tortured by her owner (as, let’s face it, most Barbies are.). With Janice, we also created and performed a mashup of Richard Wright poems and Quincy Jones-Cosby show riffs performed at St. Ann’s Church (sorry, it was Black History Month).

I consulted on folk singer and songwriter (“Day-O”, “Island in the Sun”, “Jamaica Farewell”) Irving Burgie’s musical “Day-O: the Songs of Irving Burgie.”

Live Performance has always been IT for me

I started doing live performance shows, written, developed and performed in New York, and beyond, with twin Stephanie, ultimately as The Jones Twins, but also as The Jones Clones (should have kept that one) and The Media Maidens.

In a another twist, our Jones Twins Doppelgangers are called The Double It Twins (blonde-haired sexy automatons who move, speak and sing in synch).

I guess once you’re a twin looking at your mirror image, looking in a mirror that reflects twins looking in a mirror, looking at twins in a mirror…the creative quantum experience is at your disposal.

I’ve talked long enough, for now…

My studies began in the Drama Department  at the legendary (tho not yet so-named) Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University.

They continued at The New School, (B.A., with Honors, Screenwriting and Film Studies) and at professional writing and producing program, TV Writers Studio, launched by screenwriter Norman Steinberg (“When Things were Rotten” lol), and under writer/director Stephen Molton, held at Steiner Studios through Long Island University where I earned an M.F.A.

Memberships:

National Academy of Arts & Sciences, New York Chapter

New York Women in Film and Television