A.C.T. ASSOCIATE ARTIST STEVEN ANTHONY JONES NOMINATED ONE
OF THE "TEN MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE BAY AREA"
BY CITYFLIGHT NEWSMAGAZINE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
1/6/03
San Francisco, CA, January 6, 2003—Steven Anthony Jones—A.C.T. associate artist, James Irvine fellow, core acting company member, and Master of Fine Arts Program teacher and director—has been nominated for one of the “Ten Most Influential African Americans in the Bay Area” for 2002 in the field of arts and literature by CityFlight Newsmagazine. The two other distinguished nominees in the field of arts and literature are Benjamin W. Hazard, director of the Crafts and Cultural Arts Department of the City of Oakland, and independent artist Eugene E. White. Nominees are selected based on their contributions in representing and enriching the Bay Area’s African American community in a myriad of fields, including arts and literature, community service, corporate, education, entertainment, entrepreneur/small business, media, public service, spiritual leader, and youth. Recipients of the 2002 awards will be announced at the fourth annual awards gala, sponsored by Safeway, Inc., on Saturday, February 1, 2003, at the Herbst Pavilion in San Francisco.
CityFlight’s nominee selection committee chose 30 people, three in each of ten categories, from among more than 150 names posted by readers via ballots on CityFlight newsmagazine's Web site. An awards panel consisting of CityFlight staff, previous recipients of this award, and community leaders will select the ten winners.
Among previous years’ award recipients are: San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown; Oakland Ballet Artistic Director, Karen Brown; Santa Clara County Superior Court judge, Sharon Chatman; real estate developers Paula and Charles Collins; Congresswoman Barbara Lee; author and relationship expert, Dr. Julia Hare; pastor of Maranatha Christian Center, Dr. Tony Williams; pastor of Glad Tidings C.O.G.I.C., Bishop J. W. Macklin; Oakland East Bay Symphony’s Maestro Michael Morgan; BET and KTVU broadcast journalist, Renee Kemp; educator and civic activist Carl Ray; and KPIX news anchor Barbara Rodgers.
CityFlight nominee Steven Anthony Jones is an A.C.T. associate artist and Geary Theater veteran. As a member of the A.C.T. core acting company he will be seen at the Geary Theater this season in Richard Greenberg’s The Dazzle (February 14 – March 16) and Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters (May 8 – June 8). His previous A.C.T. productions include Night and Day, Buried Child, A Christmas Carol (Ebenezer Scrooge), Celebration and The Room, “Master Harold”…and the boys, The Misanthrope, The Invention of Love, The Threepenny Opera, Tartuffe, Indian Ink, Hecuba, Insurrection: Holding History, Seven Guitars, Othello (title role), Antigone, Miss Evers’ Boys, Clara, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Saint Joan, King Lear, Golden Boy, and Feathers. Other local theater credits include Fuente Ovejuna and McTeague at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; As You Like It at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival; The Cherry Orchard, Every Moment, and The Island at the Eureka Theatre; Sideman at San Jose Repertory Theatre; and Division Street at Oakland Ensemble Theatre. He originated the role of Private James Wilkie in the original production of A Soldier's Play at the Negro Ensemble Company in New York. His many film and television credits include two seasons of “Midnight Caller.”
For more information about the “Ten Most Influential African Americans in the Bay Area”, or to purchase tickets to the awards gala, please visit www.cityflight.com.
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