Preston Jones (April 7, 1936 – September 19, 1979) was an American playwright best known for A Texas Trilogy, a set of three plays.
Jones spent the majority of his adult life in the employment of the Dallas Theater Center (DTC), performing many different roles including actor, stage manager, and director.
In 1972, Jones was given directorship of the Down Center Stage (a workshop within DTC), through which he premiered his best-known work ''The Texas Trilogy''.
Following his discovery by Wood and Schneider, Jones became a subject of significant interest to the theatre community, and was compared to Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill by critics.
[3] Jones continued to write, creating A Place on the Magdalena Flats, Santa Fe Sunshine, and Juneteenth before his death in 1979 from complications related to surgery on a bleeding ulcer.