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Who I Am

Within a short period, Quintin Humphrey launched his career as a playwright with his first recognition, his play I love you. I don’t care. Discuss.
(Jerrod Holmes, a forty-five-year-old African-American, is having indiscriminate sex with men due to his boyfriend’s illness. He wakes up in bed one morning with Reiner Wecker, a fifty-five-year-old white, married Deutsche bank executive. They are in love with each other after one night. Still, with Reiner having a wife and two children, there is no chance for a future together until Jerrod moves to Munich for his job.)
I love you. I don’t care. Discuss. was a semi-finalist in the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship in July 2019.
 
The first production of his work was his third play, Full Stop, a one-act play in New York City by The Acting Studio & Chelsea Reb Lab:
About Full Stop
(A successful African-American married couple plans to go out to dinner when they discover that they do not have a working mobile phone trapping the couple inside their hotel suite.)
The production was three weeks after Humphrey obtained his MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont, in July 2021.

 

While at Goddard College, Humphrey wrote his second play, his thesis, No. 1 White James McGahey.

 
Rogelio Martinez, the principal advisor on his thesis, professor, playwright, and screenwriter, teaches at Columbia University, NYU, winner of the Princess Grace Award and many honors, wrote about his thesis.
“No. 1 White James McGahey is an impressive play. It’s intricately plotted, and that alone is an achievement. Plenty of playwrights I work with know how to write character but fail when it comes to plot. Quintin can do both with ease.”
Darrah Cloud, Goddard, the second reader, professor, playwright, and screenwriter, wrote about his thesis play No. 1 White James McGahey,
   “Quintin Humphrey has written a sweeping and gorgeous play for the millennium. A play for people who love the theater, and who go often and understand its rich history.     Intertwined with that is the story of a family continually bombarded by tragedy and racism in the South, and yet the matriarchs of which could never be kept from loving     people, no matter what they did. In addition, it’s a powerful story about the love between a black man from Texas and a white man from the Netherlands; but it is about       so much more than that. It’s as complex as a Greek tragedy, and just as human and compelling.”
No. 1 White James McGahey, received the following honors and accolades:

Semi-finalist: Morgan-Wixson New Works Festival 2021 Santa Monica, CA July 2021
Finalist: JOOK Spotlight Series, Memphis, TN, August 2021
Stage Reading: Original Work Series – Arts Fort Worth March 15, 2022
Semi-finalist: We Will Dream New Works Festival – New Orleans, LA, March 19, 2023, to June 19, 2023

 

In 2020, Humphrey created and launched his Master Classes in playwriting: Bends/Curves, Twists, and Unexpected Reveals on Scene
Construction and Rewriting A Play at Working Title Playwrights.
 
In 2021, Humphrey started Dramaturgy.
 
Humphrey is a recipient of the 2022 Ethel Woolson Lab by Working Title Playwrights for his play No Kissing
(After a brief chat on a dating app, Clayton, 60, a Black gay male, invites Roff, 60, a white gay male to his condominium. It is the first night a city will implement a curfew and shut down due to COVID-19. Clayton is concerned that it is unsafe to meet. Roff is not worried about the disease. When they are about to kiss and have sex, Clayton freaks out, which prompts Roff to leave, but he is trapped there because of the curfew. The evening unfolds with Roff and Clayton discovering a common bond, a similar history of aging, dating, sex, loneliness, and finding love in gay society during the early days of a new crisis similar to the early days of the AIDS Crisis, which the two men survived.)
 
Humphrey obtained his BBA from Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX. Before becoming a playwright, his love of fashion and design led to a highly successful career in merchandise planning with major brands in the retail and fashion industry, where he worked for visionary companies The Limited, Gap Inc, Escada, and Giorgio Armani. His career led him to live across the United States in Columbus, Ohio, New York City, and San Francisco. He lived in Europe from 2008 to 2019 in Munich, Germany, and Milan, Italy.
While living in Milan, Humphrey wrote fashion reviews of Milan’s Fashion Week for Men, published in The Fashion Plate Magazine, a digital magazine focusing on sustainability in the fashion industry, in January 2019. https://thefashionplatemag.com

With Designer Marcelo Burlon – Milan

Balcony of Santoni’s Showroom – Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II – Milan

Eleventy – Showroom – Milan

Bed J. W. Ford Fashion – Porta Genova – Milan

Balcony of Santoni’s Showroom – Galleria – Milan



In Spring 2023, Humphrey’s play No. 1 White James McGahey will be produced by Ryan Repertory Company, NY, NY. 

 

Eleventy Showroom – Milan
Quintin Humphrey With Fashion Designer Marcelo Burlon – Milan
Humphrey is a member of the Dramatist Guild, Working Title Playwrights, and New Play Exchange .
Humphrey is attending the Conservatory of Performing Arts of Point Park University for another MFA in Playwriting, Screenwriting, and Television writing, graduating in 2024 where he has completed his first screenplay, 10-minute Clean Hands
  •  (It’s the White family tradition of digging the grave of a loved one who passed. Sherman must dig his mother’s grave with his son’s help to prove that her death was natural and his hands are clean.)
 
 
Bed J. W. Ford Fashion Show – Porta Genova – Milan

Finally, Humphrey wants to return to the country that helped to establish his voice as a writer, Italy. His goal is to create a Writer’s Retreat where playwrights and screenwriters gather to write and share work underneath the Tuscany sky, where creativity is the food and writing exercise is the wine to drink. To have a diverse group of writers who learn from each other where no one voice is louder, where everyone feels equal, and the passion of writing is why they are there.

 

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