Rhodessa Jones

Rhodessa Jones is Co-Artistic Director of the San Francisco acclaimed performance company Cultural Odyssey. Jones is also the Founder and Director of the award winning Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, which is a performance workshop designed to achieve personal and social transformation with incarcerated women. Jones has done a lot for the women’s prison systems, including the first full-length theater production with female inmates inside the Johannesburg Correctional Services in Johannesburg, South Africa, for which she was named Arts Envoy by the US Embassy in South Africa.

Other than her advocacy of the arts in the prison community, Jones also sees herself as a performer and teacher.