Kelly Jones is a gay Working-Class Playwright and Neo Burlesque Performer (Cortina Ford) from Dagenham. She was the winner of the BBC Drama Award in 2014. She has recently completed the Emerging Playwrights Program at The Bush Theatre, Hightide’s Playwrights cohort, Mercury Theatre’s Essex Voices and BBC DRAMA ROOM 20/21. Supported by The Peggy Ramsay Foundation. Kelly likes to write about queerness, class and her relationship to home.
