Alethea Jones


Alethea Jones is an Australian film and television director, best known for her films Lemonade Stand, Fun Mom Dinner, and the TV series Queen America.

Career

Jones's first short film, When the Wind Changes, premiered at the 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival. In 2011 it won the Inside Film Award for Best Short Film, the Most Popular Film Award at Flickerfest, and the Best Comedy and People's Choice awards at the St Kilda Film Festival.
She gained wider recognition with the short film Lemonade Stand, which won first prize at the 2012 Tropfest Film Festival.
Her first feature film was Fun Mom Dinner, starring Toni Collette, Paul Rudd, Molly Shannon, Adam Scott, and Adam Levine. The film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
In August 2017, it was announced that Jones would direct a planned live-action Barbie film, starring Anne Hathaway, from a script by Olivia Milch and produced by Sony Pictures. In October 2018, Sony lost the rights and the project moved to Warner Bros. with Margot Robbie to star. Jones, Hathaway and Milch did not continue with the production after the studio change.
In October 2022, Jones was announced as an executive producer and episode director of Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies for the streaming service Paramount+.

Awards

Jones grew up in Northern New South Wales, Australia, and graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2007. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Emmy-award nominated sound designer PK Hooker.

Filmography

Short film
  • When the Wind Changes
  • Lemonade Stand
Feature film
  • Fun Mom Dinner
Television
YearTitleDirectorExecutive
Producer		Notes
2011Cop Hard5 episodes
2013The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting3 episodes
2015A History of RadnessTV movie
2018Wrecked2 episodes
2018American Woman1 episode
2018-19Queen America10 episodes
2019-22Dollface4 episodes
2019Lodge 492 episodes
2020Dispatches from Elsewhere1 episode
2021Made for Love2 episodes
2021Evil2 episodes
2022Shining Vale3 episodes
2023Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies3 episodes
2023Mrs. Davis3 episodes
2024High Potential2 episodes
2025Peacemaker2 episodes