Bianca LaVerne Jones
Acting is the art of transformation. As a director and coach, I founded Acting Alchemy to serve as a creative catalyst for the artist's breakthrough. I don't just teach technique; I facilitate the transmutation of your talent into undeniable presence. A performance that belongs to YOU. Whether I am behind the director's table or on set or stage, my mission is to reach that deeper, braver version of my artistry waiting to break through.
Welcome to a space where discipline meets spirit-and where your craft becomes GOLD."
Welcome — I’m Bianca LaVerne Jones
Bianca LaVerne Jones is a powerhouse director, actor, and educator shaping bold, truth-telling work across theater, television, and film. A graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory.
Bianca attended Yale School of Drama MFA, and later the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA), where Bianca is recognized as the first African American woman in the United States to earn a master’s degree in directing from LAMDA.
Bianca's directing credits include theaters such as Baltimore Center Stage, Asolo Rep, Black Spectrum, Lantern Theater, NC Black Rep and on Broadway as Associate Director of Chicken and Biscuits. Her artistry moves fluidly between stage and screen, with acting credits including Ocean's 8, Blindspot, FBI, The Blacklist, and Marvel’s The Punisher, and directing work that includes Mother’s Milk, episodes of The Gaze: No Homo, and selection by Jordan E. Cooper for the inaugural multi-camera director program for The Ms. Pat Show on BET+. Bianca was also a NYFF Academy Artist.
At the National Black Theatre Festival, she was last seen as Berta in Berta, Berta and returned as a visionary director behind two acclaimed 2024 productions,
I Am…a Shepherdess and The Claudette Colvin Story. She also directed the short film MABEL starring Trezana Beverley and is part of the 2025 AUDELCO Award-winning ensemble for The Wash by Kelundra Smith, produced by Woodie King Jr’s New Federal Theatre. Theater is also part of her bloodline:
Bianca is the daughter of Herman LeVern Jones, a key collaborator with Larry Leon Hamlin in bringing the National Black Theatre Festival to life, and she proudly carries her own place in that legacy as the first NBTF “festival baby,”.
What we believe in
Bianca LaVerne Jones — a director, actress, and educator who knows how to pull the truth out of an actor with precision, humor, and heart.
Bianca the Director
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Bianca the Actress
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances"
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Coaching & Classes
Acting Alchemy is the creative catalyst for growth; where technique and dynamic meet spirit
Bianca LaVerne Jones is the first African American woman to earn a Masters in Directing from LAMDA
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