RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s
RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s
RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s
RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s
RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s
RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s
RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s
RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s
About
Darryl V. Jones
Darryl V. Jones is a professional director, actor, and singer.
This fall (2026), he will appear in Every Saturday Night,
a new musical set in San Francisco's Fillmore District, known as the Harlem of the West, with San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Co. In early 2027, he will be in The Crucible at Marin Theatre Co.
Darryl has appeared as the “Tin Man” in the American Conservatory Theatre’s acclaimed production of The Wizard of Oz, and “The Man” in Crowns at Center Rep. in Walnut Creek, California. Jones co-wrote, directed, and performed in Halie!
The Mahalia Jackson Musical for Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, where he served for two years as the Acting Artistic Director.
He is Professor Emeritus at Cal State East Bay and specialized in teaching August Wilson and Tennessee Williams scene study classes for several years in the American Conservatory Theatre’s MFA Program.
Jones holds the distinction of collaborating with Arthur Miller on Jones's Dominican American production of Miller's
A View From The Bridge, which earned Jones the Washington, DC Theatre Lobby Award for Outstanding Direction. Off Broadway, Jones directed We Are Your Sisters, which received the AUDELCO Award for outstanding production. In recent years, Jones directed Blue Door by Tanya Barfield for Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley, California, and Choir Boy by Terell Alvin McCraney for Shotgun Players. He also directed Kill Move Paradise by James Ijames for Shotgun Players and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Prior to that, he directed The Brothers Size for Theatre Rhino. Darryl directed the SF Bay Area Critics Circle Award-winning production of The Devil’s Music; The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith for Center Rep. He directed the world premiere and SF Bay Area Critics Circle Award-winning production of The Great Kahn by Michael Gene Sullivan for San Francisco Playhouse. Jones directed Detroit 67, by his former student Dominique Morisseau, for the Aurora Theatre Company. In 2017, Darryl directed and co-choreographed the Aurora Theatre Company’s production of The Royale, winning the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Entire Production-East Bay as well as being nominated for Outstanding Direction.
Other directing credits include, The Grapes of Wrath and Balm and Gilead (Outstanding Direction Ann Arbor News) Mud, River, Stone (The Unicorn Theatre) The Minneola Twins (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co.), Gem of the Ocean (Sacramento Theatre Co.), The Amen Corner (African American Continuum Theatre Company) Spunk (The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Co. and
The African Continuum Theatre Co.) and direction/choreography for the world premiere of the opera Dark River, based on the life of Civil Rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer for the Oakland Opera Co., and on the East Coast the Mt. Holyoke College premiere.
At Cal State University, East Bay, Jones directed several premieres of new plays, including Follow Me To Nellie’s by Dominique Morisseau and Xtigone by Nambi Kelley, chosen to attend the Region VII Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. His COVID 2020 production of
Blood at the Root received numerous regional and national KCACTF honors and awards. Jones has also directed and choreographed musicals such as In the Heights, Chicago, Cabaret, Sweet Charity, Oliver, The All-Night Strut,
Children of Eden, The Wiz, and many, many more.
Prior to moving to the Bay Area, Darryl was a directing associate at Arena Stage, where he directed projects and produced PlayQuest, the New Play Development Series.
At Arena Stage, he also choreographed Candide, directed by Doug Wager, and Dance of Death, directed by Joanne Akilaitis.
As a theatre educator, Jones was Head of the B.F.A. Directing Concentration at the University of Michigan and Foundation Advisor for their BFA Acting Program for six years. He founded the musical theatre program at the University of California, East Bay and was awarded several American College Theatre Festival honors. Darryl also taught theatre courses at Boston University.
Darryl is an active member of Actors' Equity Association.
He was featured in Word for Word’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner as the Sun. He was nominated for a TBA Award in 2017 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in Theatre Rhino's first production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and he played Alemu in The Call by Tanya Barfield at Rhino. Other performance credits include Blues In The Night, Old Globe; Candide, Arena Stage; and A Christmas Carol and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Ford’s Theatre.
Darryl has been a featured singer at the White House and performed with Bob Hope for the USO’s 40th anniversary at the Sylvan Theatre in Washington, DC.
Jones holds a Bachelor of Music, Vocal Performance from The Catholic University of America, and an MFA in Directing from Boston University. He has Meisner Technique certification from instructor Larry Silverberg’s True Acting Institute. In addition to performing and directing, Jones has composed music for productions and has served as vocal, dialect, and music coach.