Suzanne Jones
September 10, 2019
Melbourne born Suzanne set off in the direction of a career in main stage theatrical productions via degrees in both economics and music. She got her start in the entertainment industry in 1998 as a Sound Engineer at Arts Centre Melbourne. She very quickly went on to become head of sound for System Sound, touring large-scale music theatre productions around Australia and Asia.
In 2006 she left the industry for several years, expanding her skills in other areas however her love of live entertainment saw her return to the industry and join the team at The Gordon Frost Organisation in 2013. She has been involved in producing the Australian tours of the London Palladium production of The Sound of Music, the Queen musical, We Will Rock You, the Australian premiere of the 8-time Tony Award-winning production of Once, The Wizard of Oz and most recently she is the Executive Producer on the Australian tours of Chicago The Musical and Waitress.
Alongside this, in 2016 Suzanne established her own production company, Jones Theatrical Group (JTG). JTG works in Australia and internationally both producing and investing in live entertainment. She has been involved in An Act of God with Jim Parsons and Sean Hayes (Broadway), Fiddler on the Roof(Broadway and US Tour), Fully Committed with Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Broadway), School of Rock (West End), Lady Day at the Emerson Bar and Grill with Audra MacDonald (West End), Long Day’s Journey into Night with Jeremy Irons and Leslie Manville (West End), King Lear with Sir Ian McKellen (West End), Carolina or Change (West End), Heathers (West End), Summer and Smoke (West End), Home, I’m Darling (West End), Glengarry Glen Ross (UK Tour), Pinter at the Pinter (West End), Betrayal with Tom Hiddleston (West End), The Price with David Suchet (West End), Bitter Wheat with John Malkovich, 9 to 5 The Musical (West End), Hairspray (West End), Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (West End), #Date Me – An OkCupid Experiment (Off-Broadway). It is also under this banner that Suzanne produced the Australian tour of the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of The Wizard of Oz in 2017/2018. She is currently producing the Australian tours of Chicago The Musical, 9 to 5 the Musical and Waitress.