Broadway's Rebecca Naomi Jones Books Recurring Role on FX's SEX&DRUGS&ROCK&ROLL

Rebecca Naomi Jones is keeping her HEDWIG rock rolling.

According to Deadline, the Broadway veteran has booked a recurring role on the second season of FX's Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll created by and starring Denis Leary. Jones also joins Elizabeth Gillies, John Corbett, Elaine Hendrix, Robert Kelly and John Ales. Eric Sheffer Stevens has also joined the cast.

Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll centers on "Johnny Rock" (Leary), lead singer of a legendary early 90s New York band called The Heathens. Known for living up to their name, the band partied so long and so hard that even Keith Richards thought they needed to slow things down. The Heathens were on THE BRINK of BECOMING famous for their kickass live shows and the release of their highly anticipated first album. Until they broke up. The same day the album dropped. Because lead guitarist Flash (Corbett) found Johnny in bed with his wife. So the band became legendary for all the wrong reasons - like self-destructing sooner than any group in rock-n-roll history. 25 years later, Johnny's massively talented daughter Gigi (Gillies) reunites Johnny, Flash, and the rest of their dysfunctional rock and roll family - Bam Bam (Kelly), Rehab (Ales) and Ava (Hendrix) - to be her new backup band, The Assassins. Together they've got another shot at rock glory.

Jones will take on the role of "Davvy, a sexy downtown singer."

In addition to creating Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, Leary also serves as a writer, composer and a director, as well as an Executive Producer along with Jim Serpico. Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll is produced by FX Productions and FOX 21 Television Studios.

The series returns for its second season later this year.

Jones has received critical acclaim for her performances in Big Love at Signature Theatre Company, Murder Ballad (Lily Award, Lortel Award nomination), American Idiot, Passing Strange, and most recently in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Time Out New York has called her "a future legend of the New York stage" and "a member of the next generation of theatrical superstars." She can also be seen in the indie film Ratter which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival.

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