His plays include The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, for which he was a 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist,[3] The Jammer, which first appeared at the New York Fringe Festival and features a hilarious dedication to the original lead actor, Kevin Rich,[4] and Sovereignty.
[5] His work in television includes Showtime's Weeds and United States of Tara, NBC drama Friday Night Lights, HBO's Boardwalk Empire and Perry Mason, and AMC's Interview with the Vampire,[6] for which he serves as showrunner.
[7] Jones joined the crew of Friday Night Lights as a writer and supervising producer for the series fourth season in 2009 and wrote the episodes "The Son" and "Laboring".
[9] Jones grew up in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles, California,[2] and graduated from El Camino Real High School in 1990.
[9] He studied filmmaking and English at Cal State Northridge[10] and graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2004.