Fridays

Lenore Jones grew up in the green room of Marquette University where her father, Dr. Leo Jones, was chair. She studied acting at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, receiving a BFA and focused on directing for her MA from Marquette University. After graduation she founded her own theater company, writing, directing, and producing. She named it Teatro Maria II after the small theater in the round that was Marquette University's original stage. In her senior year at UWM, she was stricken with chronic fatigue syndrome, and was unable to get out of bed for almost a year. Unable to continue acting due to her illness, her father set up a bed in the basement, and from there she rehearsed and directed her first play. She focused on directing for her graduate work, but not after first playing Nina in The Seagull by Checkov, which was directed by her father. Lenore also directed plays and taught both acting and costume history and design at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. Having practiced Transcendental Meditation since the age of 16, she welcomed the opportunity of working with an all meditating student body. Most recently, Lenore returned to MUM to work for the David Lynch MFA film program. After a long hiatus from acting, she played the part of Esther in the film The Heartland. Then she was asked to design 1930s period costumes for the film Kennedy Hill.