During HGO’s 2026-27 season, Courtney D. Jones serves as choreographer for Susannah. Jones previously collaborated with HGO as a choreographer/movement director for The Snowy Day (2021); movement director for Madame Butterfly (2015) and The Passenger (2014); and as a dancer in Die Fledermaus and Show Boat (both 2013). She has performed and choreographed with numerous Houston arts organizations, including Stages Theatre (Auntie Mame, In the Next Room), Theatre Under the Stars (South Pacific, Ain’t Misbehavin’), and A.D. Players (Fiddler on the Roof). She also danced professionally in New York with Jennifer Muller/The Works. Additional credits include the First National Tour of WICKED and Ain’t Misbehavin’ at the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. Jones’s work has been commissioned by CounterCurrent Festival, METdance Company, YES! Dance Invitational, DanceNOW Festival, Barnstorm Dance Fest, Colorado Mesa University, and the Dance Gallery Festival. She previously served as adjunct faculty at the University of Houston and continues to freelance as a guest teacher and choreographic artist through her CDJ Dance Project, teaching at universities, workshops, and arts initiatives nationwide. She is the Chair of the Dance Department at Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.