Jamila Ponton Bragg is the Founder of JamRock Productions, LLC, a theater production company committed to works for women, about women and by women. After nearly twenty years in the nonprofit industry, Ms. Bragg transitioned to theater production. Ms. Bragg began her journey as a producer in March 2020 as a co-producer on Blue (2000), a play by Charles Randolph Wright. Currently, that production is on hold due to the coronavirus. Ms. Bragg is working in collaboration with the Ntozake Shange Literary Trust and Harlem Stage to stage a production of The Photograph, a play set in 1970s San Francisco from Ms. Shange. The production is scheduled for 2022. Ms. Bragg is also working with the Ntozake Shange Literary Trust to stage a production of Betsey Brown (1985), a semi-autobiographical book about Ms. Shange’s time with her family as a thirteen-year-old in St. Louis in 1955. The Betsey Brown project is scheduled for a workshop reading in Spring 2022.
Ms. Bragg graduated from Duke University in 1996 with a BS in Psychology and earned an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1999. She is originally from Pittsburgh, PA, resides in Harlem, NY with her husband and her two children.
She has served on the Harlem Stage Board since 2022.