Rebecca Naomi Jones

Rebecca Naomi Jones is an American actress and singer known for her work in Broadway rock musicals. Born in New York City, she sang in the Metropolitan Opera's children's chorus as a child and trained in drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts before touring nationally in Rent and Caroline, or Change. She made her Off-Broadway debut in 2007 in Passing Strange, which moved to Broadway the following year, and originated the role of Whatsername in Green Day's American Idiot on Broadway in 2010. Other stage work includes Murder Ballad, which earned her a Lucille Lortel Award nomination, Love's Labour's Lost at the Delacorte Theater, Significant Other, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Her Laurey in Oklahoma! made her the first woman of color to play that role on Broadway, and she later took over the role of Persephone in Hadestown.