Amanda Jones Bio List of Credits

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AMANDA JONES COMPOSER TELEVISION / DIGITAL (SELECT)

Young Love HBO Max / Sony Pictures Animation Executive Producers: Matthew A. Cherry, Carl Jones, Monica Young

Naomi CW Director: Amanda Marsalis Executive Producers: Ava DuVernay, Jill Blankenship

Nat Geo Presents Impact with Gal Gadot Nat Geo Director: Vanessa Roth Executive Producers: Gal Gadot, Jaron Varsano

Good Trouble Freeform Director: Joanna Johnson Executive Producers: Joanna Johnson, Jennifer Lopez

Adventure Time: Distant Lands HBO Max Director: Miki Brewster Executive Producers: Adam Muto

Love In the Time Of Corona Freeform Director: Joanna Johnson Executive Producers: Joanna Johnson, Robyn Meisinger

Cherish the Day OWN Director: Tanya Hamilton Executive Producers: Ava DuVernay, Oprah Winfrey

HOME (Emmy Nominated for Outstanding Original Score) Apple TV+ Executive Producer: Doug Pray and Collin Orcutt

From Cradle to the Stage Paramount + Executive Producer: Dave Grohl, Virgina Grohl, Doug Pray

A Black Lady Sketch Show HBO Director: Dime Davis Executive Producers: Robin Thede, Issa Rae, Lauren Ashley Smith

Twenties BET Director: Justin Tipping Executive Producers: Lena Waithe, Andrew Coles

How to Make Love to A Black Woman – Pilot SHOWTIME Director: Naima Ramos-Chapman Executive Producers: Lena Waithe, Cathy Kisakye

FILM (SELECT)

Dreamland: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street HBO Max / CNN Director: Salima Koroma Executive Producer: LeBron James & Maverick Carter

7 Days Tribeca Film Festival, 2021 Premiere Director: Roshan Sethi & Karan Soni Executive Producer: Duplass Brothers

St. Louis Superman Oscars Nominee 2020, Tribeca Film Festival, 2019 Premiere Director: Smriti Mundhra & Sami Khan Executive Producer: Al Jazeera English

Definition Please Director: Sujata Day Executive Producers: Sujata Day, Cameron Fife

Spilt Milk AT&T HELLO LAB Director: Cierra Glaude Executive Producers: Lena Waithe, Rishi Rijani

Into The Night Director: Laci Dent

Ringside Berlin International Film Festival, 2019 Premiere Director: Andre Hormann Executive Producers: Carolyn Hepburn, Mark Mitten, Ken Pelletier

1 Angry Black Man Urban World Film Festival, 2018 Premiere Director: Menelek Lumumba Executive Producer: Hans Charles

Run Black Star Film Festival, 2019 Premiere Director: Brandon Broussard

Jump Director: Kofi Siriboe Executive Producer: Shawn Marcus Taylor

Across the Tracks Director: Mike Cooke Executive Producer: Kim Y. James

TLC: No Introduction Director: Qiana Conley Executive Producers: Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, Rozonda “Chili” Thomas, Josh Green

MUSIC PRODUCTION CREDITS (SELECT)

How To Train Your Dragon 2 DreamWorks Animation Music Production Coordinator, Score Production Coordinator Director: Dean DeBlois

Dear White People - TV Series Netflix Music Coordinator Executive Producers: Justin Simien, Yvette Lee Bowser

Greenleaf OWN Music Coordinator Executive Producers: Oprah Winfrey, Craig Wright, Carla Gardini, Clement Virgo

Kingsman: The Secret Service Marv Films Music Production Coordinator Director: Matthew Vaugn

EDUCATION

Vassar College June 2010 Bachelor of Arts – Music Composition

Berklee College of Music June 2014 Film Scoring & Orchestration

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS / ACHIEVEMENTS

• Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Music Composition For Documentary or Special Series (2020) • Shadow & Act Rising Award Recipient, Creator (2019) • NAACP Image Award Recipient, Best Gospel Album (2017) • Project Involve, LA Film Fest - Composer Fellow (2015, 2017) • Emmy Television Academy – Voting Member, Music Peer Group

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES

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Amanda Jones is an Emmy Nominated Composer who is rapidly becoming a standout voice amongst a new generation of television and film composers.

Jones’ original music can be heard on the episode “Maine” from Apple TV+’s documentary series Home for which she received her first Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Music Composition For A Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score). Jones has the distinction of being the first African American female to be nominated in the Primetime Emmy score category.

Jones’ television credits also include CW’s upcoming series Naomi, HBO Max & Sony Pictures Animation’s series, Young Love, Nat Geo’s current series, Nat Geo Presents Impact with Gal Gadot, Freeform’s Good Trouble, Love In The Time Of Corona, HBO Max's Adventure Time Distant Lands: Obsidian and Together Again, OWN’s anthology series Cherish the Day, produced by Ava DuVernay and starring Xosha Roquemore and Alano Miller; Showtime’s Twenties, produced by Lena Waithe and starring Jonica T. Gibbs, Christina Elmore and Gabrielle Graham; HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show, produced by Robin Thede and Issa Rae, starring Quinta Brunson and Gabrielle Dennis; CW/Refinery 29’s comedy series Shitty Boyfriends, by executive producer Lisa Kudrow, starring Melissa Hunter and Sandra Oh, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's Adult Swim comedy series Beef House, for which she wrote the main title theme, Topic’s mini-series Passing: A Family in Black & White; and many more.

In addition to her television credits, Jones has experience scoring both short and feature films, as well as commercials. Jones scored the upcoming HBO Max Documentary Feature “Dreamland: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street”, Duplass Bros’ produced feature “7 Days” Sujata Day’s upcoming feature film, Definition Please, starring Levar Burton. Some of her past credits include Menelek Lumumba’s award-winning drama 1 Angry Black Man; Andre Hormann’s documentary feature Ringside, which premiered at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival; Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan’s Oscar-nominated documentary short St. Louis Superman; “Trolls 2: World Tour McDonalds Commercial”; “Nike’s Summer 2019 Campaign Sports Changes Everything”; and more.

Jones has a BA in music from Vassar College where she studied music composition, production and classical guitar under Terry Champlin. She also has certificates in both film scoring and orchestration from Berklee College of Music.

Jones performs as the singer and guitarist of the Los Angeles based indie rock band, The Anti-Job. Their music has been air-played on multiple radio stations including BBC Radio and NPR.

Jones resides in Los Angeles.