Who I am
I obtained my BBA from Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX. My love of fashion and design led me to have a highly successful career in merchandising and planning with major brands in the retail and fashion industry, where I worked for visionary companies that changed the retail landscape: The Limited, in Columbus, Ohio; Gap Inc., in San Francisco; Escada, in New York City and Munich, Germany; and finally Giorgio Armani in Milan, Italy.
While living in Milan, I started my writing career with a series of 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.
- A Formalist Mix of Nostalgia and Modernism: Kiton Fall/Winter 2019-20
- A Trip to the Renaissance: B.F.F. Zilli Fall/Winter 2019-20
- A Winter in Africa: Miguel Vieira Fall/Winter 2019-20
- Eyed Afresh: Daks London Fall/Winter 2019-20
- Lost in Outer-Space: BIUU Fall/Winter 2019-20
- Milan Fashion Week Behind the Scenes: Pre-Game Preparation for the Bed J. W. Ford Show Fall/Winter 2019-20
- Nudging the Classic: Eleventy Fall/Winter 2019-20
- Understand & Authentic: Church’s Fall/Winter 2019-20
Balcony of Santoni’s Showroom – Galleria – Milan
Quintin Humphrey With Fashion Designer Marcelo Burlon – Milan
Eleventy Showroom
– Milan
Bed J. W. Ford Fashion Show – Porta Genova – Milan
Milan, Italy – Miguel Vieira’s Fashion Show recapping my notes
Within a short period, I launched my career as a playwright with my first recognition, becoming a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship in July 2019 with my play, I love you. I don’t care. Discuss.
My first production was my third play, Full Stop, a one-act play produced by The Acting Studio & Chelsea Reb Lab in New York City in July 2021, eighteen days after I received my MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont.
While at Goddard College, I wrote my second play, my 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 characters 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 numerous 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 2022, I was one of four recipients of the 2022 Ethel Woolson Lab by Working Title Playwrights for my play No Kissing.
The EWL is Working Title Playwrights’ most in-depth development opportunity. Playwrights selected to participate in the Lab, receive 29 hours of developmental workshop, culminating in a rehearsed, staged reading for the public, which includes a dramaturg, a director, a stage manager, and a cast of actors.
No Kissing was one of four winners of JOOK’s 3rd Annual Spotlight Reading Series in 2023.
In January 2025, I founded a non-profit theater company called Theatre Noir Blanc that will start producing plays in late Fall 2025.
Mission
Theatre Noir Blanc creates, develops, and produces original works that explore the gay interracial experience–pushing boundaries, taking creative risks, and fostering an inclusive community that inspires a future generation of theatre-makers.
Vision
To elevate bold, untold stories by national and international playwrights that reflect the richness and complexity of a diverse world.
