A video clip from the current Broadway production of American Idiot with Christine Jones' Tony-winning work in full evidence
The Little Montrealer That Could"...there are a thousand ways to have a life in the theatre...you just have to find your tribe."
David King
In the 1980s, Christine Jones was a bored English Lit student at both Marianapolis College and Concordia University. American born and raised in Montreal, she found her thrills assisting Marianopolis theatre professor Victor Garaway with design, set building and scenic painting at the college. It was Garaway who suggested she apply to Concordia's Theatre Department and become a scenographer.
"A stenographer?" asked Jones. "No, a 'scenographer,'" Garaway told her.
Interviewing at Concordia with a primitive portfolio and a prayer, Jones landed herself a spot in Concordia’s Design For the Theatre Program, where she graduated in 1989. Hugely self-critical of her own work, says Eric Mongerson in a recent interview for Concordia University Magazine, Jones eventually found her path with the constant encouragement of mentors like Mongerson and [professor] Ana Cappelluto.
