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World Premiere Musical

Private Jones

EXTENDED! Feb 6 - Mar 17, 2024
A group of seven people dressed in brown soldiers jackets. One man leans on a ladder and is lighting a cigarette. A woman and a man sit on a crate and look at a pair of glasses. The man in the center stares straight ahead. One woman is drinking from a fla

A gripping, inspiring and unexpectedly funny world premiere musical adventure about a deaf Welsh sniper in World War I.

After losing his hearing, Gomer Jones is left behind when the rest of the young men enlist. However, when fresh recruits are needed, he fakes his way into a battalion alongside a group of colorful, misfit trainees. Once the “bastards,” as they call themselves, reach the front, Jones becomes a celebrated sniper, but getting everything he thought he wanted might mean losing himself in the process.

With rousing songs and an innovative soundscape, and featuring a cast of hearing, Deaf and hard-of-hearing actors, Private Jones is an exhilarating musical experience unlike anything else.

Written and Directed by Marshall Pailet
Director of Artistic Sign Language Alexandria Wailes
Music Directed by Myrna Conn
Choreographed by Misha Shields
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Performance Information

Seating Chart

Private Jones Seating Chart
  • Run Time

    Running time is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission.

  • Content Warnings

    This show is recommended for mature teens and up and has strong language, derogatory and ableist terms, gunshot/explosive sounds, depictions of war and death, harm to animals and will use strobe lights and theatrical haze.

Content Warnings

This show uses strong language including expletives, and derogatory and ableist terms. There are depictions of war and death including gunshot and explosive sounds. There is a scene where dogs are harmed.

The production will use strobe lights and theatrical haze.

This show is recommended for mature teens and up.

Accessibility

The production will be performed in spoken English as well as some American Sign Language and British Sign Language.

Open and closed captions are available at every performance. Open captions are to the sides of the stage and the best sightlines are from dress circle, orchestra left/right, and center orchestra above row E.

Closed captions available via the free GalaPro app (on your own device or on a Signature provided device).

Theatre Accessibility Info

Accessible Performances

Open and closed captions are available at every performance.

Sign Language
Recommended Seats

Thursday, February 22 at 8PM, Tuesday, February 27 at 7:30PM, Wednesday, March 6 at 7:30PM, Saturday, March 9 at 8PM, Sunday, March 10 at 2PM and Saturday, March 16 at 2PM. The best sightlines will be from Orchestra Right.

ASL Happy Hours

February 22 at 6PM and February 27 post-show. A special reception in the lobby for members of the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community.

Specialty Nights

Discussion Nights

February 27 & March 6, 2024

Pride Night

February 23, 2024

Masks Required

February 18, 2PM & March 6, 7:30PM

ASL Happy Hours

February 22 at 6PM & February 27 post-show. A special reception in the lobby for members of the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community.

Program

Flip through the Private Jones Program

Click the arrows to turn the pages, and click the box in the bottom right corner to view in full screen.

Cast Members

Leanne Antonio

Leanne Antonio

Gwenolyn/Evans

she/her BROADWAY/NAT.TOUR: The Lion King. OFF-BROADWAY: Black No More (choreo. Bill T Jones, music by Black Thought). REGIONAL: PaperMill: Murder On The Orient Express (Mary Debenham, dir. Casey Hushion); La Jolla Playhouse: Lempicka (dir. Rachel Chavkin, choreo. Raja Feather Kelly); CRT: Disaster (Levora, starring/written: Seth Rudetsky, dir./writer: Jack Plotnick) TV: CBS: The Equalizer (Nia, dir. Christine Moore). OTHER: Muriel’s Wedding (Rhonda, dir. Simon Phillips, writer PJ Hogan).

Deimoni Brewington

Deimoni Brewington

Bailey

he/him SIGNATURE: Passing Strange. DC AREA: Imagination Stage: A Year with Frog & Toad; Adventure Theatre MTC: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Keegan Theatre: Sweat; Faction of Fools: Missed Connections; Let’s Learn Lazzi; Arts On The Horizon: Squeakers and Mr. Gumdrop; Constellation Theatre Company: Once On This Island; Arena Stage: Toni Stone; Round House Theatre: Sleep Deprivation Chamber; Theater Alliance: Protest in 8; Blood at the Root. REGIONAL: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; The Adventures of Pericles; City Lights Theater Company: 61 Unused Pages. EDUCATION: Howard University: BFA in Musical Theatre. @creatlas

David Aron Damane

David Aron Damane

Father/Drill Sergeant

BROADWAY: The Book of Mormon, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Big River, Porgy & Bess, Riverdance, The Life. NATIONAL TOUR: The Book of Mormon, The Color Purple, Big River, Riverdance, The Who’s Tommy. NYC: The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Drama Desk, Best Lead Actor in a Musical nomination); Classic Stage Company: Carmen Jones; MSG: A Christmas Carol; NY Theatre Workshop: Moby Dick; Titus Andronicus. REGIONAL: Denver Center: The Color Purple; Goodspeed Opera House: Show Boat, Private Jones, Glimmerglass; Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ontario: Macbeth; Pittsburgh CLO: Kinky Boots; Ford’s Theatre: To Kill A Mockingbird. TV/FILM: Dynasty, Jett (Cinemax), Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, The Good Fight, Instinct, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order, Guiding Light, One Life To Live, All My Children.

Alex De Bard

Alex De Bard

Ensemble

she/her SIGNATURE: Private Jones, Passing Strange, Into the Woods, RENT, Gun & Powder. DC AREA: Monumental Theatre Company: tick, tick…BOOM! (Helen Hayes Nominated- Outstanding Supporting Performer), 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche; Olney Theatre Center: Kinky Boots, A.D. 16; NextStop Theatre: Little Women, First Date; Bay Star Theatricals: The Condition of Ellen Mitchell; Museum of the Bible: Amazing Grace; Adventure Theatre: The Velveteen Rabbit, Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”, Fancy Nancy’s Splendiferous Christmas, Blueberries for Sal. REGIONAL: Goodspeed: Private Jones (workshop). EDUCATION: The Catholic University of America, BM. IG: @alexdebardmusic

Ariel Friendly

Ariel Friendly

Swing

she/her SIGNATURE: Ragtime. DC AREA: McClean Players, Workhouse Arts Center. REGIONAL: Florida Studio Theatre: Buddy Holly, Cinderella; Outdoor Theatre: Lost Colony: The Lost Colony; Wolfhart Haus Dinner Theatre: Grease, For God and Country, The Motown Sound. EDUCATION: BFA Emory & Henry College. @ariel_friendlyshow

Dickie Drew Hearts

Henry

he/him OFF-BROADWAY: The Public Theatre: Dark Disabled Stories (Lucille Lortel Outstanding Featured Performer Nomination); Deaf Austin Theatre: The Laramie Project; NEW YORK: New York Deaf Theatre: Maple & Vine; IRT Theatre: Trash, My Onliness, Please Untranslate Me. TV/FILM: Netflix: Tales of the City; Grace & Frankie. HBO: High Maintenance. AWARDS: ________. EDUCATION: Gallaudet University: Film. @DickieHearts (Instagram)

Amelia Hensley

The Storyteller

BROADWAY: Deaf West’s Spring Awakening (Thea). NEW YORK: Playwrights Horizons: I Was Most Alive With You; Lincoln Center: Into the Woods. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. REGIONAL: LA Philharmonic: Beethoven’s Fidelio; Getty Villa / Deaf West: Oedipus. FILM/TV: ABC/Hulu: Station 19, YouTube: Sesame Street.

Nicholas Hohrman

Swing

he/him/his EDUCATIONAL: Gallaudet University: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Trash. EDUCATION: Gallaudet University.

Johnny Link

Gomer Jones

OFF-BROADWAY: Out of the Box Theatrics: Baby (Danny). REGIONAL: Goodspeed Musicals: Private Jones (workshop); The Rev Theatre. TV: Netflix: My Life With the Walter Boys (Will Walter); AppleTV+: Dear Edward (Gary); NBC: Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. OTHER: NAMT: Private Jones (reading). @johnnyvlink

Jake Loewenthal

Jake Loewenthal

Redvers

he/him SIGNATURE: Ragtime, Into the Woods, She Loves Me, RENT. DC AREA: Shakespeare Theatre Company: King Lear, Our Town; Rep Stage: Falsettos. REGIONAL: Barrington Stage Company: Cabaret; Hartford Stage: Macbeth, La Dispute; Trinity Rep: A Christmas Carol; Quintessence Theatre Group: King Lear; Playhouse on Park: Cabaret; Theater at Monmouth: Henry V, Richard III, Dial M For Murder; Short North Stage: Bad Jews, The Rocky Horror Show, Noises Off, Sondheim on Sondheim (director); Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre: Young Frankenstein. EDUCATION: MFA Brown/Trinity.

Vincent Michael

Vincent Michael

Edmund

he/him SIGNATURE: Into the Woods, RENT, Assassins (Helen Hayes nomination), A Chorus Line, Camille Claudel, Gypsy, Grand Hotel, Billy Elliot, Jesus Christ Superstar, Miss Saigon, Spin, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Ol’ Blue Eyes, Entirely Elvis, Woodstock, Crossing: In Concert. NEW YORK: Musical Theatre Factory: The Greenwood Tree. REGIONAL: St. Louis MUNY: RENT; Goodspeed Musicals: Private Jones; Ford’s Theatre: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Round House Theatre: The Nutcracker; Olney Theatre Center: Kinky Boots, Grease, Joseph…Dreamcoat, Takes One to Know One; Keegan Theatre: Spring Awakening; The Kennedy Center: The Greenwood Tree, Latino Inaugural 2013; DAR Constitution Hall: Horatio Alger Awards 2018; Capital Fringe Festival: Gilded; TELEVISION: A Capitol Fourth; EDUCATION: Bachelor of Music, CUA. @vincentmichael.k

Stephen Russell Murray

Stephen Russell Murray

Swing

he/him SIGNATURE: Which Way to the Stage, Spin, Sunday in the Park with George, Shakespeare's R&J; DC AREA: Folger Theatre: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Pericles, The Way of the World; Olney Theatre: Kinky Boots, The Music Man; Arena Stage: For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls; Keegan Theatre: Chicago, Spring Awakening, What We're Up Against, American Idiot; 1st Stage: Never the Sinner, The Chosen; 4615 Theatre: Separate Rooms, A Delicate Ship; Pointless Theatre: Rhinoceros; Spooky Action Theater: Maple & Vine; Imagination Stage: A Year With Frog & Toad. EDUCATION: MFA Classical Acting,The Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy. www.stephenrussellmurray.com

George Psomas

Ensemble

BROADWAY: Fiddler On The Roof, South Pacific. NATIONAL TOUR: My Fair Lady. NEW YORK: NYMF at Playwrights Horizons: Errol and Fidel (world premiere, Errol, NYMF Outstanding Supporting Actor Award Winner). REGIONAL: Goodspeed Musicals: Private Jones (workshop); The Old Globe/McCarter Theatre: Ken Ludwig’s The Gods Of Comedy (world premiere); Portland Stage: Sex and Other Disturbances (world premiere); The Human Race Theatre Company: Play It By Heart (world premiere); The Link Theatre Company: She Loves Me (Kodaly). VOICEOVER: Transitions (40th Anniversary Edition, Hachette, Narrator); Pizza Hut; The Upstate Four (Pilot, Cartoon Network). OTHER: Broadway Idol (Season 2 Winner, NYMF); Host of Broadway Under The Stars (5 years, NYC). GeorgePsomas.com IG:@George_Psomas

Emily Steinhardt

Emily Steinhardt

Ensemble

she/her SIGNATURE: Private Jones. INTERNATIONAL: Japan: A Chorus Line (Lois/Sheila). REGIONAL: Legacy Theatre: Love Affair (Phyllis Knoeffler); Goodspeed: Private Jones (workshop). OTHER: Workshops: Days of Rage (Nina). Readings: Marcel on the Train, Loch Ness. EDUCATION: Shenandoah University: BFA Musical Theatre. Delaware County Community College: AA Journalism. emilysteinhardt.com @_esteinhardt

Hank von Kolnitz

Hank von Kolnitz

Swing

he/him SIGNATURE: Private Jones, Sweeney Todd. NATIONAL TOUR: A Christmas Story. REGIONAL: The Lexington Theatre Company: West Side Story; Florida Studio Theatre: A Comedy of Tenors, New York State of Mind; Totem Pole Playhouse: Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; Santa Rosa Summer Rep, Clinton Area Showboat Theatre. EDUCATION: BFA University of Cincinnati CCM. HankvonKolnitz.com

Erin Weaver

Erin Weaver

King

SIGNATURE: Private Jones (King), Into the Woods (The Baker’s Wife), Company (Amy, Helen Hayes Award), The Last Five Years (Cathy), Xanadu (Kira). NATIONAL TOUR: Les Misérables. DC AREA: Arena Stage: Newsies (Kathrine), Mother Courage (Kattrin, Helen Hayes Award); Folger Theatre: Sense & Sensibility (Marianne, Helen Hayes Award: Ensemble), Romeo & Juliet (Juliet), Comedy of Errors (Luciana), Arcadia (Thomasina, Helen Hayes Award), The Tempest (Miranda); Round House Theatre: Oslo (Mona Juul), Or (Nell Gwynn, Helen Hayes Award), Ordinary Days (Deb, Helen Hayes Award), A Murder, A Mystery & A Marriage (Mary), A Wrinkle in Time (Meg); Theatre J: Sheltered (Mrs. Kirsch); Kennedy Center: Me, Jane (Jane); Imagination Stage: You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Sally), Wonderland…(Alice). REGIONAL: California Shakespeare Theatre; Arden Theater Company; Two River Theater; People's Light and Theater Co.

Creative Team

Marshall Pailet

Written and Directed by

Marshall is a director, writer and composer for musical theater, plays, animated films. He directed, composed, and co-wrote the Off-Broadway musicals Who's Your Baghdaddy, or How I Started the Iraq War (Two-time New York Times Critics’ Pick) and the now internationally licensed Triassic Parq (Ovation Award, Best Musical). Other: A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet (Director, DR2); Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat (Director, optioned by Alchemation); Claudio Quest (winner of six 2015 NYMF Awards for Excellence); Shrek the Halls (DreamWorks Theatricals); Loch Ness (optioned by Victoria Lang, Mark Schwartz and Martian Entertainment); Hershey’s Unwrapped (Brass Ring Winner; Hershey’s Chocolate World); VeggieTales: Noah’s Ark starring Wayne Brady (Film, Original Songs). Other Directing Work: Sequence (Adirondack Theater Festival); The Reunion Experience; Wonderland (Atlantic Theater Company); Eudaemonia; Uncle Pirate; Stuck; The 49 Project; Thursday; With Kings in the Back; Bat Boy; Escape Artists; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Developed work with Dreamworks Animation, Goodspeed Musicals, RKO Stage, PBS Kids.

Catherine Flye

Catherine Flye

Dialect Coach

SIGNATURE: Billy Elliot. DC AREA: Folger Theatre: Nell Gwynn, Henry V, Comedy of Errors, School for Scandal, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Clandestine Marriage, All’s Well That Ends Well, She Stoops to Conquer, The Dresser, Private Lives, Lettice and Lovage; Arena Stage: Oliver, My Fair Lady, George Don’t Do That!, Shirley Valentine; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Design for Living, Major Barbara, Camino Real, A Woman of No Importance, Volpone, Richard III, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night; MetroStage: Real Inspector Hound, Shakespeare’s Will, Seamarks; Rapture; Studio Theatre: Moonlight, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Russian Postal Service, Blue Heart; Round House: Pride and Prejudice: Wintertime, Woman in Mind, Absurd Person Singular; Ford’s Theatre; Washington Stage Guild; Olney; Kennedy Center. INTERNATIONAL: U.K. AWARDS: 13 Helen Hayes Award nominations and awards for acting and directing. UPCOMING: Olney Theatre: The Humans 1st Stage: The Waverley Gallery

Daniel Powers

Daniel Powers

Assistant Choreographer

SIGNATURE: Billy Elliot. REGIONAL: Virginia Repertory Theatre: West Side Story; Cincinnati Ballet; Cincinnati Opera; Ballet Austin; MorDance; Dayton Performing Arts Alliance; Orlando Ballet. EDUCATION: Washington School of Ballet; Houston Ballet Ben Stevenson Academy; Ballet NOVA @daniel.powers_

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Press Reviews

A stunning achievement

The Washington Post

A thrilling musical adventure

Metro Weekly

Breathtaking

DC Theater Arts

An exquisitely affecting masterpiece

UnProfessional Opinion

Compelling and surprisingly funny

MD Theatre Guide

Needs to be seen

TheaterMania

A musical journey with a message to treasure

BroadwayWorld

Moving and unforgettable

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