[1] Jones has acted on Broadway, at the Metropolitan Opera, in numerous regional productions, and in select television and film roles.
[3] Sabra Jones grew up in a small town just outside of Los Angeles, separated from the metropolitan hubbub and yet close to the city's arts.
[9] Jones made her Broadway debut in 1971, replacing Blythe Danner as Jill Tanner in Butterflies Are Free and continuing the role in the First National Tour.
In 1972, Jones made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Duchess of Krackenthorp in La Fille du Régiment and later acted as Andromache in Les Troyens.
Jones also performed in 13 plays with her own Mirror Repertory Company,[10] nominated by the Outer Critics Circle for Best Acting Ensemble and Best Sustained Excellence.
Other New York and select regional credits include Sally and Marsha, Someone, Hot Buttered Bourbon, Jigsaw, Indiscretions, and Our Town.
It explores the fictional lives of Prospero and an adult Miranda after their return to Italy from the Island in The Tempest by Shakespeare, as well as the founding of America and the fate of Powhatan tribes at the hands of British settlers.
Jones traveled to the Philippines as a journalist, “interview[ing] former Philippine presidents Garcia, Macapagal, and Marcos and [writing] features on Corregidor’s infamous Malinta Tunnel.”[15] She is also an award-winning poet—her poem “Christus Neger” won first prize at the University of California—and playwright, winning the Dramalogue Best New Play award for her play One Hundred Percent Alive.
Her show Alice in Wonderland, directed by Eva Le Gallienne, opened on Broadway in 1982 garnering a Tony nomination.