Writer, director, actor
Adam Jones
aka Docta Jones
Adam is a writer, director and actor from West Virginia. He started writing at three years old on a typewriter with no ribbon, and started directing at ten when his father got the family a video camera. He began acting on stage in his teens and has since appeared in more than thirty plays and twenty short films, with major roles in several features. On television he appeared in the History Channel's Hatfields & McCoys and AMC's The American West.
At Bard College he earned two BAs, in acting and in writing, and ran the sound department for drama and dance performances for two years. After graduating he was technical director and production manager at the Schoolhouse Theatre in New York for two full Equity seasons. In New York he also worked in the art department on more than fifteen studio films, while working on independent films in his off time to hone his craft as a director and his voice as a storyteller.
His feature directing debut, Cross Eyed, won several festival awards, including Audience Choice and Grand Jury prizes. He has written screenplays, teleplays and stage plays, developed concepts for television series and video games, and works as a freelance script doctor and story consultant for writers and production companies. A licensed hypnosis therapist in the QHHT technique, he brings a love of metaphysics to his storytelling.