Martha H. Jones  
With a career in the performing arts spanning 30 years, Martha Jones has worked as stage director, teacher, actress/singer, playwright, and arts administrator. Ms. Jones was a member of the founding team of the Huntington Theatre Company, the professional theater in residence at Boston University, and has served as Director of Development for the Indiana Repertory Theatre. In addition, Ms. Jones has been deeply involved in the training and mentoring programs for young performing artists in Kentucky, Florida, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

During her eighteen years with the Celebrity Series, Ms. Jones has overseen the Celebrity Series' development as a separate not-for-profit organization, the establishment of its first Board of Directors, and the expansion of its arts-in-education program, which serves approximately 25,000 young people in the greater Boston area each year, and the creation of an endowment. She has also been instrumental in expanding Celebrity Series programming to include a focus in the areas of modern dance and ballet, and family concerts aimed specifically at "turning on" young audiences to classical music, cabaret, world music, and classical music.
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Martha H. Jones
Professional Affiliations:  

• Board Member, ISPA (International Society for Performing Arts), since 1991.
• Overseer, The Boston Conservatory, since 2002.
• Member, APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters), since 1996.
• Member, Chamber Music America, since 1996.
• Member, Dance USA, since 1998.
• Board Member, MAASH (Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences & Humanities), an advocacy and lobbyist organization, since 2001.
• Chair, Boston Cultural Director's Group, since 2001.
• Member, The Boston Foundation's Cultural Task Force, since 2001

   
   
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