My performing arts career has been blessed with many opportunities. I am a proud resident artist with the Human Race Theatre Company of Dayton, Ohio and with the American Stage Theatre Company of St. Petersburg, Florida. Also, I have been bestowed the honor of serving as one of the artistic directors for Playhouse South in my hometown of Dayton, Ohio. I have appeared in over 40 professional Equity Theatre productions, including seven of the ten cycle plays of August Wilson.
I have won three awards for my stage work: the Blackburn Award of Excellence for Best Actor in 1997 for my portrayal of Troy Maxson in Fences; the AACTA Onyx Award Best Equity Actor in 2007 for my portrayal of Boy Willie in Piano Lesson; as well as the AACTA Onyx Award Best Equity Actor in 2009 for my portrayal of Canewell in Seven Guitars. Recently, I was honored with the Best Supporting Actor award by the DayTony’s for my role in A Christmas Carol. After performing in Sterling, Ontario, where I appeared in Driving Miss Daisy, I earned the title of a professional international theatre actor.
When I am not on stage, I lend my bass/baritone voice to the recording of audio CD books – a successful venture I am very proud of that has been recognized by AudioFile Magazine:
MARCHING FOR FREEDOM: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary written by Elizabeth Partridge and read by Alan Bomar Jones • Brilliance Audio.
This award-winning, captivating history makes a wonderful transition to audio because of Alan Bomar Jones’s performance. Jones delivers the historical background and the quotes of well-known leaders in factual tones and adds poignancy to the stories of interviewees who were young activists during Alabama’s Civil Rights struggles in 1965. Jones’s varied tones portray the immense emotional swings of events—from the pride of the Selma march to the terror of the violence meted out by state troopers on Bloody Sunday. A particular strength of the audio comes in Jones’s rich renditions of the music that united and gave strength to the frightened youth. Also included are a note read by the author and the powerful photographs from the book.
Finally, I feel very blessed to have met the woman of my dreams, my wife, the lovely singer/actress Becky Barrett-Jones.
