Rebecca Naomi Jones

Jones was born in New York City, New York, to a musician father. Her mother is Jewish and her father is African-American. Jones performed in the children\'s chorus of the Metropolitan Opera as a youth and graduated from the Berkeley Carroll School in 1999. "I did theatre all throughout middle school and high school and was really into it, the same with singing," she said. Jones received her BFA in drama from the North Carolina School of the Arts, and appeared in the national tours of Rent and Caroline, or Change.\n', 'In 2007 Jones made her Off-Broadway debut in Passing Strange, which transferred to Broadway on February 28, 2008. She created the role of Whatsername in the Green Day rock opera American Idiot, which opened on Broadway on April 20, 2010. Paper magazine said of Jones, "She\'s carved out a nice niche for herself as the girl to call when there\'s a cooler-than-thou musical in…