BIOGRAPHY
Ken Jones
Ken Jones is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Ken graduated from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University in playwriting in 1991. In 1989, the same year he joined the A.R.T., his play Darkside appeared in Time’s Critics’ Choice after being produced at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. While at the A.R.T.'s Graduate Training Institute, Ken had the opportunity to perform as an actor with Nobel Prize–winner Derek Walcott on his original musical, Steel, Broadway playwright Allan Knee’s premiere of his play The Lost Boys (later the film Finding Neverland), and with Christopher Durang in the A.R.T. One-Minute Play Festival. Ken also wrote seven A.R.T. late-night cabarets as well as three comedies that were produced in the student series.
Ken also received his BFA from the University of Florida, and an MFA in playwriting from the University of Virginia. He has had over four hundred productions of his twenty-four produced plays, seven published, and his works are listed in several anthologies and monologue books. Professional theaters have produced his plays across the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Jones served as the head writer for Lightpoint Entertainment at Disney/MGM Studios developing pilot episodes for series airing on ABC, HBO, Disney Channel, and PBS. 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, the Kentucky Playwright’s Award, the Frank Sinton Milburn Award, and an Emmy nomination. Jones is currently the chairman for the Department of Theatre and Dance as well as playwright-in-residence at Northern Kentucky University.