Born into a working-class Protestant family,[1] Jones was an actress for several years before turning her hand to writing.
[3] It was created to help counteract the lack of roles for women, and which produced a series of collaboratively written original works.
The group’s first play, Lay Up Your Ends, based on a strike by mill girls in the early part of the 20th century, was an immediate hit.
She has written a number of stage and television plays, including Tribes (1990), The Hamster Wheel (1991), Fighting the Shadows (1992), Wingnut and the Sprog (1994) and A Night in November (1994).
[5] Fly Me To The Moon (2012), performed in New York and Belfast, tells the story of Davy, an 84-year-old Frank Sinatra fan and his two carers Francis and Loretta.