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, New Zealand,
Australia, Canada, and thoughout Europe. 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 Rosenthal Endowed Chair for the Department of Theatre and Dance as well as playwright-in-residence at Northern
Kentucky University.
