|
Ken Jones is an award winning playwright and screenwriter. Ken received his BFA from the University of Florida, an MFA
in playwriting from the University of Virginia and he graduated in playwriting from the American Repertory Theatre Institute
for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. Jones has had over four hundred productions of his 24 produced
plays, seven published, and his works are listed in several anthologies and monologue books. Professional theatres have
produced his plays across the United States, Great Britain and Canada. He has directed for academic and professional theatres
for 25 years approaching classic stories and plays with creative retellings. He has won a Telly Award, a Communicator’s
Award, the Post-Corbett award for Literary Artist, the DuPont Fellowship, the Delauney Playwriting Award, the Denver Prima
Facie Award, and the Kentucky Playwright’s Award. Jones has written and directed for television developing pilot
episodes for different television series airing on ABC, HBO, Disney Channel, and PBS. He received an Emmy nomination
in 1994. Jones is currently the Chairman for the Department of Theatre and Dance as well as playwright-in-residence
at Northern Kentucky University.
|
