Back in 1986, Jones was offered to teach aerobics to the women at the San Francisco City Jail. The life-changing job experience made her an actress, playwright, teacher and a human rights activist.

Last year the unconventional artist made history when she staged a full-length theater performance with female convicts in the Johannesburg Correctional Services – better known as the “Sun City” prison – for the first time in South African history.

Jones is also the author of the award-winning series of monologues “Big Butt Girls, Hard Headed Women” which she will unveil in Moscow on September 21.