Last weekend, the University of Delaware welcomed the class of 2020 back to campus to re-celebrate their commencement in person, which they were unable to do last year. The featured speaker was Phi Tau Alumnus Ty Jones, Delaware ’89.
Jones is an actor and award-winning artistic director of the Classical Theater of Harlem. A Delaware alumnus himself, Jones earned both his BA in Communications in 1992 and his MA in Theater in 1995 at UD.
Jones has acted in five Broadway shows and won an OBIE award for Outstanding Performance in the off-Broadway production of The Blacks. He has appeared in various films and television series including Power, When They See Us, and Nella the Princess Knight.
Jones has served as Producing Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem since 2009, a company dedicating to reimagining classic works. Jones initiated Uptown Meets Downtown, a strategic partnership designed to share production costs between theaters and communities. He also led the inaugural Uptown Shakespeare in the Park which brought free, professional theater to Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park.
Congratulations to Ty Jones and to all of our 2020 and 2021 graduates!
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