Steve Carter’s Eden, directed by Brandon J. Dirden @ Yale Repertory. L to R: Juice Mackins, Russell G. Jones, Lauren F. Walker, Alicia Pilgrim, Prentiss Patrick-Carter, Christina Acosta Robinson & Chaundre Hall-Broomfield. Photo © Joan Marcus.
Projection Designer Ein Kim recreated a reference photo of actress Lauren F. Walker as a beautiful charcoal drawing!
for Eden by Steve Carter, directed by Brandon J. Dirden.
L to R: Assistant Director Stephanie Rolland, Actors Prentiss Patrick-Carter, Heather Alicia Simms, Lauren F. Walker, Juice Mackins, Alicia Pilgrim, Chaundre Hall-Broomfield, Christina Acosta Robinson & Russell G. Jones
L to R: Lauren F. Walker, ChiChi Anywanyu & Russell G.
Our projection designer recreated this photo as a chalk drawing which we used to make t-shirts for ourselves!
Tony Jackson, Russell G, Tonye Patano and The Tina Fabrique cane to New Haven to see the show!
L to R: Russell G, Vernice Miller & Joann Yarrow.
L to R: Russell G. Ka’ramuu Kush
L to R: Christina Acosta Robinson, Steven Tyrone Williams, Simone Vicari Jones, Heather Alicia Simms, Billy Eugene Jones, Charles Brown, Brian D. Coats & Russell G. Jones
L to R: Russell G. Jones, Verna Shamblee, Marcia Pendleton and a friend in the August Wilson Lounge after the show.
L to R: Norrlyn-Michael Allen & Russell G. Jones
L to R: Chaundre Broomfield-Hall, Michael Potts, Carl Hendrick Louis, Heather Alicia Simms, Alicia Pilgrim, Lauren F. Walker, Juice Mackins & Russell G. Jones.
L to R: Stephanie Berry, John-Martin Green & Russell G. Jones after Eden.
Say hello after Eden.
L to R: Molly Fitzsimmons & Russell G. Jones.
Production still: Rennie Harris' Nuttin But A Word
L to R: Rennie Harris, Apollo, Akim Funk Buddha, Bolden & Russell G after taking in Rennie’s choreography in Nuttin But A Word at New Victory Theater.
L-R: Russell G, Stephanie Weeks, Biko Eisen-Martin, Christina Anderson, ---, Frank Harts, Hubert Point-Du Jour
L-R: Actors Alyssa Isetta, Russell G, Christiana D. Clark, Director/Artistic Director Soho Rep Eric Ting, Playwright Yilong Liu, Stage Manager Shadie Thompson, Martha Brigham, Bruce McKenzie, Daniel K. Issac & Daniel Liu. 29-Hour WORKSHOP/READING for The Playwrights Realm!
L-R: Actors Alyssa Isetta, Russell G, Christiana D. Clark, Martha Brigham, Bruce McKenzie, Daniel K. Issac. 29-Hour WORKSHOP/READING for The Playwrights Realm!
L to R: Actors Heidi Armbruster, Russell G, Dancer Cal Hunt, Violinist Johnathan Moore, Tsilala Brock, Michelle Veintimilla, Yonatan Gebeyehu, Naomi Lorrain, Bjorn Dupaty & Director/Adaptor/Artistic Director of Moliere In The Park, Lucie Tiberghien @ BRIC House.
Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience in San Francisco invited our development of The Heat Will Kill Everything via a 29-hour Workshop at Brava Theater Center.
L to R: Russell G, BACCE Founder/Producing Director Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, BACCE Core Member Kehinde Koyejo & Playwright Keith Josef Adkins on the first night of the presentation.
Yasmin Wingfield, Russell G & Tanya Mayo
Russell G & Cornelio
was the piece of visual art the BACCE was elevating with our piece, to enage audiences further.
L to R: Russell G, Cornelius Moore, Audience Member & Playwright Keith Josef Adkins
After the reading, I am surprised to find fellow NYC ACRE member Miriam Eusebio in the house. She brought her mom and she enjoyed THWKE, too.
Pam Peniston liked my shirt. Turns out she was the lighting designer for the first production of Steve Carter’s Eden at The St. Marks Theater in 1976.
Keith, Edris, Jen & Russell G!
L to R: Kayla Davion, Reina Cedeño, Yvonne Pruitt, Alecys Proctor-Turner, Joshua Hendricks, Naturi Naughton, Victoria Lino, Andria Langston, b, Brooks Brantley, RJ Walker, Dylan T. Jackson, Ariyan Kassam, Moses Ingram, Damani Cease, & Russell G, Omar Muhammed & Brett Gray
Soul Soireé Monologue Slam
Feature Film hitting festivals in 2026.
L to R: Actor Jesse Wakeman & Director Mike Crane on Mike’s feature film, The Narcissist. phot by Russell G. Jones
@ Sisters Uptown Bookstore produced by Potluck Legacy.
L to R: performers Bolden, Craig Williams, Pascale Armand, Tina Fabrique, Director/Adapter Portia, Russell G. Jones, Huling Foster & Pernell Walker.
of his play Other @ Barrow Street Theatricals
L to R: Russell G. Jones & Ari’el Stachel
Bianca Laverne Jones, Kerry Warren, Eunice Woods, Alicia Pilgrim and Margaret Odette in The Wash. Photo: Hollis King
by Brandon Jacob Jenkins, Directed by Sarah Benson @ Park Avenue Armory
L to R: Director Sarah Benson, Actors Frank Wood, Russell G. Jones, STephanie Berry, Set Designer Mimi Lien, Actors Keren Lugo, Ronald Peet, Zoe Winters and Writer Brandon Jacob Jenkins. photo by Extraordinary Stage Manager, Amanda Spooner
L to R: Michael Cyril Creighton & Russell G. Jones
after filming.
Long Bright River on Peacock
Simone Gregory Collaboration
L to R: Portia, SaMi Chester & Russell G. Jones
L to R: Jeorge Bennett Watson, Leslie Silva and Russell G.
The show also featured the wonderful Amy Hargreaves!
Director Russell G. Jones, Composer & Conceiver Cecilia Smith and Choreographer Rennie Harris.
by Abigail Onwunali.
L to R: Joi Elise Green, Jennifer Mogbock, Jason Bowen, Anthony Irons, Portia, Bianca LaVerne Jones perform a reading of Stokely by Nambi Kelly, directed by Kent Gash.
@ NYSAF L to R: Russell G, writer Nambi E. Kelley, and the multi-talented Bianca Laverne Jones, who had just performed with Joi Elise Green, Jennifer Mogbock, Jason Bowen, Anthony Irons &Portia.
L to R: Alex Winter, Michael Patrick Thornton, Keanu Reeves and Brandon J. Dirden
L to R: Russell G, Heather Alicia Simms & Brandon J. Dirden
L-R: Jean Gotto, Andrea “Izzy” Anthony, Eden Maryshow, Russell G. Jones
L-R Russell G. Jones, Chris Gabo, Adrienne Cambell-Holt
Swamp Dwellers at Theater For a New Audience
L to R; Wole Soyinka & Awoye Timpo
Starring Ato Blankson-Wood, Leon Addison Brown, Joshua Echebiri, Benton Greene, Jenny Jules, Jason Maina, Chiké Okonkwo, Olawale Oyenola.
L to R: Vickie & Hillel came to see me perform at Celebrate Brooklyn w/Voices of The People’s History.
.L-R: Tianna Davis, Travis Raeburn, Tyler Rogers, Adrianna Mitchell, Badia Farha, Russell G. Jones, Mansa Ra, Ameenah Kaplan, Joanie Anderson, Freddie Fulton, Bonita Jackson-Turner @ Sunlight Studios.
Russell G. and Susan Heyward!
L to R: Tobacco Brown, Russell G. Jones, Bolden, Elz Jones.
L-R: Eden Marryshow, Dr. Rinaldo B. Spech
photo by Russell G. Jones
By members of this excellent ensemble was a treat!
L to R: Lynnea, Gregory, Kara Young, Russell G, Harry Lennix and Maria Bauman
Maria Bauman, Russell G and Monica Williams after enjoying the Harlem Meer.
Chi Chi Anyanwu, Susan Heyward, Russell G and other beautiful folx enjoying The Public’s Twelfth Night.
Russell G, Norrlyn-Michael Allen, Larryjean Powell and a friend.
L to R: Maria Bauman, Patricia McGregor & Russell G. Jones @
Making Space at the Armory’s Black Theater Advance, Co-presented with National Black Theatre.
L to R: John Scutchins, Patricia McGregor & Russell G. Jones @ Making Space at the Armory’s Black Theater Advance, Co-presented with National Black Theatre.
Kekoa finishes his high school education and is headed to college!
L to R: Carl Cofield, Belynda Hardin, Performer François Batiste, Yvette Ganier, Writer Keith Josef Adkins, Keith Randolph Smith, Stephanie Rolland and Charlie Hudson III. Courtesy of the National Black Theatre, photo bt director Russell G. Jones.
L to R: Hostess Cassidy Chan, Filmmaker Frank Harts, Host Hubert Guy, Performer Russel G. Jones, Hostess Kelsey Butler & Marcus Lorenzo Butler.
Hubert Guy’s Scripts & Stages @ Comedy In Harlem
Russell G, Foster Stevens, Heather S & Frank Harts.
L to r: Actors Jasper Newell, Marlon Xavier, Playwright,Allan Staples, Zoë Laiz, Russell G, Stephen Dexter, Jonathan Silver & Director Pam Berlin.
Reading Sean Meehanx’s play FRISK
L to R: Russell G, Bolden & cori
L to R: Russell G, Jeorge Bennett Watson & Jinn S. Kim
L-R Julian Rozzell Jr., Russell G. Jones, Keith Josef Adkins
L-R Russell G. Jones, Akim Funk Buddha, Daniel Coles
Written by Sung Rno, Directed by Victor Malana Maog L to R: Sung Rno, Victor Malana Maog, Assistant Director Vivian Farahani, Ralph Maccio, Otto Garland, Joel Marsh Garland, Gwen Homerding, Julia Chan, Russell G. Jones & Stage Manager Scarlett Zhang
L to R: Ralph Maccio, Joel Marsh Garland, Russell G. Jones & Gwen Homerding.
Written by Sung Rno, Directed by Victor Malana Maog for the 24 Plays Gala 2025 photo by Umar Faraz
L to R: Joel Marsh Garland & Russell G. Jones
photo by Umar Faraz
L to R: Russell G. Jones & Ralph Macchio.
photo by Umar Faraz
L to R: Julia Chan & Ralph Macchio
photo by Umar Faraz
L to R: Russell G. Jones & Ralph Macchio.
photo by Umar Faraz
L to R: Russell G. Jones & Ralph Macchio.
photo by Umar Faraz
L to R: Russell G. Jones & Ralph Macchio.
photo by Umar Faraz
L to R: Josh Hamilton & Russel G. Jones
L to R: Director Victor Malana Maog, Actor Russell G. Jones, Writer Sung Rno & Actor Joel Marsh Garland after a successful mounting of Rno’s contribution to the 24 Hour Plays 2025 Gala, called Dance Me Deadly.
L to R: Russell G, Javan Zapata, Mayah Lourdes Burke & Ari Cleveland after teh 24 Hour plays Gala 2025.
Alwin Bully
Uma Marson
Mustapha Matura
Sistern Theatre Collective
Derek Walcott
Edgar Nkosi White
A dynamic panel discussion with the playwrights
L to R: Moderator Heather Alicia Simms, Christin Eve Cato, Petron Dee Brown, Patrice Johnson, Stacey Sargent & Winsome Pinnock, at The Billie Holiday Theatre.
@ The Billie Holiday Theater L to R: Heather Alicia Simms and Patrice Johnson. photo by Udo Salters Photography
for Minor Music at the End of the World L to R: performers AJ Wilmore, Andre Holland, Audrey Hailes, Okwui Okpokwasili, & Bria Bacon.
L to R: Andre Holland & Russell G. Jones after ANdre’s performance.
International Theater of Amsterdam
Rodney Adams & Audrey Hailes after her inspired performance.
Featuring Bradley Cooper and Russell G.
Russell, Jesse Atlas & Beresford Bennett
L to R: Russell G, Levy Lee Simon, Chris Gabo & Beresford Bennett.
L to R: Russell G, Sarah Meister, Emma Alabaster & Portia
@ Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts NY 2025 Cultural Organizing For Community Change
Expertly led by Michael Higgins Jr. as part of NOCD-NY CULTURAL ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE program.
Theory of Change Workshop
NOCD-NY CULTURAL ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE opening conversation.
L to R: Russell G, Newleywed Katya Collazo & Edith Meeks.
MB Dance’s 2025 World Premiere of “These Are The Bodies That Have Not Borne” Dancers L to R : Myssi Robinson, AJ Wilmore, angel shanel edwards, Graciella Ye’Tsunami, Rochelle Wilbun and Artistic Director Maria Ria Grace Elizabeth Bauman. photo by Russell G. Jones
