Assistant 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 since 2014 and got her start doing various youth theatre training programs with professional companies like Tarragon, Paprika Festival, and Shakespeare in the Ruff. Aside from theatre, Jahnelle now creates and writes for tv and film. With her creative partner, Kat Khan, Jahnelle started Second Adolescence Productions, a production company focused on creating diverse coming-of-age stories. Together the duo are writing a comedic feature film called Fan Club, which was chosen for the 2023 Netflix-BANFF D.O.V. Program. Jahnelle enjoys creating and consuming work that centers racialized women, especially Black women, in spaces she feels they are underrepresented in and brings three dimensional characters to life.