Discipline: Film/Video – screenplay

Jasmine Lee-Jones

Discipline: Film/Video – screenplay
Region: North London, UK
MacDowell Fellowships: 2022

Jasmine Lee-Jones is a British writer and actor. She graduated from Guildhall’s B.A. (Hons) Acting program in 2019. Her debut play, seven methods of killing kylie jenner, premiered at The Royal Court in July 2019, for which she won several awards including The Evening Standard Award for most promising playwright, the Stage Debut Award for best writer, and the Alfred Fagon Award for best play.

She is currently adapting Girl, Woman, Other for Potboiler/BBC, an adaptation of a novel for Film4, and is filming a supporting lead role in George Kay's new ITV drama The Long Shadow.

At MacDowell, Jasmine worked on a screen adaptation of her second play curious, a diptych of two Black British actresses across centuries.

Portrait by Helen Murray

Studios

New Jersey

Jasmine Lee-Jones worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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