Actor

Ora
Jones

Ora Jones was most recently seen at Steppenwolf as Rose in The Children. She also appeared as the mother in Steppenwolf's production of True West at the Galway Arts Festival in Ireland. Other Steppenwolf shows include Familiar, The Roommate and The Doppelgänger (an international farce) in the past few seasons there. Other Steppenwolf productions include The Wheel, Middletown, The Brother/Sister Plays, Three Sisters, The Unmentionables, The Violet Hour, Carter’s Way and Morning Star. Chicago roles include Catherine Adams Green in The Nacirema Society, Essie Miller in Ah, Wilderness!, Mrs. Rittenhouse in Animal Crackers, Claire in Proof, C Ana in Seeking the Genesis and Elizabeth I in The Beard of Avon for the Goodman Theatre; the Abbess in The Comedy of Errors, the Countess in All's Well that Ends Well, Katherine of Aragon in Henry VIII, Queen Charlotte in The Madness of George III, Maria in Twelfth Night, Lucienne in A Flea in Her Ear and the Nurse in Sunday in the Park with George for Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Jaclyn in Rasheeda Speaking for Rivendell Theatre; Rita Jeffries in My Kind of Town for Timeline Theatre; the Stage Manager in Our Town for Writers Theatre; and Gwen in Execution of Justice for About Face Theatre. Her Broadway roles include Madame de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Booth and Mrs. Phelps in Matilda the Musical, both at the Shubert and in the first national tour. Regional and other New York credits include Dr. Therese Stockmann in The Messenger for Pioneer Theater, and performances at Long Wharf Theatre, Yale Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club, Public Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory, Next Act, and a particular favorite, the role of Mrs. Muller in Doubtfor The Weston Playhouse in Weston, VT, directed by Malcolm Ewen. Television: Emperor of Ocean Park, Somebody Somewhere, 61^st Street, Betrayal, Chicago Fire. Film: Stronghold, Consumed, Were the World Mine, Stranger than Fiction, The Weatherman. Awards: Chicago Magazine 2011, Best Actress; Black Theatre Alliance Award, Seeking the Genesis; After Dark Award, A Flea in Her Ear, Our Town.