CONWAY, Ark. (September 5, 2024) Hendrix-Murphy Visiting Playwright Candrice Jones will give a public talk on Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall on Hendrix College campus. A reception in Trieschmann Gallery will follow the event. This event is free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations required.
Jones, an Arkansas playwright, says her “mission is to write love letters to the complicated Black women of the American South—their livelihoods, desires, and struggles, expressed in the form of plays.”
She has received commissions from Actors Theatre of Louisville, TheatreSquared (Fayetteville, AR), and San Francisco Playhouse. Her play Flex was produced in Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City festival in 2023. In 2021, her play A Medusa Thread was awarded a Preview Production at University of California Santa Barbara’s LAUNCH PAD.
Jones has received the Many Voices Fellowship and the Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis in addition to a MacDowell Fellowship. She has been awarded the Lanford Wilson Award, the Kesselring Prize, and the Steinberg Playwright Award. Jones currently lives and works in New York.