Daniel Alexander Jones has created, to date, sixteen fully produced works of theatre and performance art, since beginning his professional career in 1994.
His performance alter-ego, Jomama Jones, has been at the center of several of his works, including Black Light, a critically acclaimed performance piece commissioned by Joe's Pub's New York Voices program, that ran for six weeks in 2018 as part of The Public Theater's Astor Place 50th Anniversary Season,[3] Duat, produced by Soho Rep in 2016,[4] and Radiate, produced by Soho Rep in their 2010–2011 season.
He is credited with making a significant contribution to the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic, and was profiled alongside artists Laurie Carlos and Sharon Bridgforth in Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones's book, Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment[7] (Ohio State University Press).
[8] On October 12, 2021, Jones will release a collection of his work, a book entitled Love Like Light: Plays and Performance Texts.
There he headed the undergraduate playwriting track, taught courses in playwriting, solo performance, theatre history, and, cross-listed with African American Studies, taught a course called Young, Gifted and Black which examined the lives and creative contributions of young artists in the Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement through to the current day.