Syl Jones
Play in the PNA Catalogue
Bio
Syl Jones is the author of 60-plus plays, including Black No More, produced by the Guthrie Theater and Arena Stage and winner of the Kennedy Center Award for Best New Play of 1998. He is the only playwright to win the Mixed Blood Theatre Versus America and the Penumbra Theater Cornerstone awards in the same year. He began his career as a journalist in Cincinnati at the age of 14. In 1980, his historic interview with physicist William B. Shockley appeared in Playboy magazine and has since been anthologized in The Best of The Playboy Interviews, Vol. II. Mr. Jones writes an editorial column for the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper and is the author of Rescuing Little Roundhead: A Childhood In Stories, published by Milkweed Editions in 1996. Jones has been named a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Fellow, and his plays have won The Cornerstone Prize and have been honored by the Jerome, McKnight, Dayton, Hudson, and General Mills Foundations. He lives in the Twin Cities.
