Kwik Jones

Kwik Jones has been writing, directing, and producing plays for twenty-nine years. A theater
major at Goddard College. Kwik has developed plays such as: A Strange Seed, Forgotten Soul, Voices, Black Like Me, Jupiter is Stormy, Spotlight, The Code, Puzzle Dream, Conversations, Organ, L.U.S.T, Both Sides of the Fence, Sweet Mother Jones, Memphis Bound, Water Boyz, A Cup a Life, and many more. Awards and honors are such: The Portland Civic Theater Guilds New Play Award, for his play Cat Napper. A finalist
for the Downtown Urban Arts Festival in New York City for his plays Memphis Bound and Water Boyz which was also selected as a finalist for the PNMC New Play Readers Series Festival. He was named a semifinalist for the Lanford Wilson Festival for the play The Closet Pigeon. Recently his play A Strange Seed was chosen as one of the six finalists in The Portland Civic Theater Guilds New Play Award and was named a semifinalist at the 2022 National Playwrighting Conference. He was named 2022 Semifinalist for National Black Theatre’s I am Soul Playwright’s Residency Program. Winner of the 2022 Texas State University Black and Latino Play Conference for his play his A Cup of Life. Also, in 2022 Kwik was accepted into the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center’s Artist Grant and Residency Program in Portland Oregon.

Recently he was commissioned by The Robey Theater in Los Angeles, California for a new work: Man’s Favor Devil’s Plan. That is running in Los Angeles at the Robey Theater. Currently he is working on a new play, We Act, which he has been commissioned to write for the upcoming book (ed. Jose Casas and Tiffany Trent) Every Great Dream: Visioning African American Theater for Young Audiences, which will be published by Dramatic Publishing. He’s also 1 out of 16 playwrights commissioned to write a BIPOC Superhero play that will be published on Dramatic Publishing.