Festival Producer

Jahnelle Jones (she/her) is a Black queer Toronto based writer, actor, director, producer and winner of the “Most Well Rounded” student award (circa 6th grade). She’s been a member of the Toronto theatre community for over a decade and has worked and trained with theatre companies like Tarragon Theatre, Paprika Festival, Shakespeare in the Ruff, and the SummerWorks Festival. Aside from theatre, Jahnelle also creates and writes for tv and film. In 2022, Jahnelle co-founded Second Adolescence Productions, a production company focused on creating diverse coming-of-age stories. Through Second Adolescence, Jahnelle wrote and directed her first short film Fourteen and is developing multiple features. Jahnelle enjoys creating work that centers racialized women, especially Black women, in spaces she feels they are underrepresented in.