Quintin Humphrey

Playwright
he/him/his

Quintin Humphrey is an African-American gay playwright born in Texas with a BBA from Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX. He lived in Europe from 2008 to 2019, working in the Fashion industry for Escada, in Munich, Germany, and Giorgio Armani, in Milan, Italy. His latest play, No Kissing, was selected for the 2022 Ethel Woolson Lab, a workshop series by Working Title Playwrights in Atlanta, Georgia. A public reading of his play No. 1 White James McGahey was part of the Original Work Series of Theater Program of Arts Fort Worth presented by DVA Productions in March 2022. The Acting Studio-Chelsea Rep Lab produced his one-act play Full Stop in New York City in July 2021. His play No. 1 White James McGahey was a semi-finalist in We Will Dream – New Works Festival of 2023; a finalist at the JOOKM playwriting contest in Memphis, TN, 2021; and a semi-finalist at Morgan-Wixon New Works Festival in Santa Monica, CA, 2021. His play I Love You. I Don’t Care. Discuss was a semi-finalist in the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship in July 2019. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild, Working Title Playwrights, and New Play Exchange. Humphrey’s fashion reviews of Milan’s Fashion Week for Men were published in The Fashion Plate Magazine, a digital magazine focusing on sustainability in the fashion industry, in January 2019. He is doing a New Play Development Dramaturgy Intensive with Working Title Playwrights while attending the Conservatory of Performing Arts of Point Park University for another MFA in Playwriting, Screenwriting, and Television writing, graduating in 2024. His new play is Another Dead Seagull, part two of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull.