Terrence D. Jones
President and CEO, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Preforming Arts
June 18, 2001 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT

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Commissioning New Performance in Today's Politically and Economically Challenging Environment

Terrence D. Jones has served as president and CEO of the Wolf Trap Foundation since August 1, 1996. As such he is responsible for the presentation of more than 200 performances each year at Wolf Trap -- America's National Park for the Performing Arts -- located just outside Washington, D.C. And that's just the beginning.

He also is in charge of educational programs including the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts and the Wolf Trap Opera Company. He has championed artists from around the world -- and commissioned numerous new pieces by, among others, rhythm and blues master Dr. John, jazz great Don Byron and choreographer Randy Duncan.

Prior to joining Wolf Trap, Jones was for 10 years CEO and artistic director of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Earlier he served as general manger of Clowes Memorial Hall in Indianapolis and assistant dean of the College of Fine Arts at Butler University. He founded the Bradford Repertory Theatre in Vermont.

A frequent speaker and consultant on performing arts management issues, Jones is a member of the board of directors of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, the United Arts Organization of Greater Washington and a founding partner of the Japan/United States Collaboration Performing Arts project.

In 1994, Jones testified in support of the National Endowment for the Arts before the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives and served as one of six U.S. delegates to the first International Arts Programming Network project in Turkey and Greece, an arts exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency.

Jones earned both his Bachelor of Science degree in education and his Master of Arts degree in design and technical theatre from the University of Kansas. He also earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre design from the University of Georgia in Athens.

Jones, 53, is married to Polly Nell Jones, a writer. They have two children and one grandchild.

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