about schyleen ...
Schyleen C. Qualls, Founder and President of Arkeon Entertainment and Arkeon Education, has written, produced and performed in hundreds of projects for film, television, radio and the theatre.
Best known for her highly acclaimed one-woman show, The Last Word, Schyleen has traveled to over 45 countries including appearances at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and the Second World Festival of Arts and Culture in Nigeria. Ms. Qualls is the recipient of the Harvard University Foundation Medal for her “contributions to American Performing Arts and to Intercultural Relations.”
Ms. Qualls has addressed major conferences for the League of Women Voters, the National Association of State Boards of Education and the National Association for Women in Higher Education and corporate audiences for companies such as the McDonald’s Corporation, Sun Microsystems and Lockheed Martin.
Schyleen Qualls was Director of the Capital Campaign for the Museum of the Africa Diaspora in San Francisco, which opened in 2005, becoming the first major museum of its kind in the world.
Schyleen Qualls is Co-Founder and Trustee Emeritus of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, one of the world's foremost modern dance companies. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
In February 2010, a documentary film she co-produced, "Ben Ingram vs. the State of Mississippi", premiered at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles."
Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest, once wrote: “Schyleen Qualls is a treasure, a flower, a trump, a humdinger of a word slinger, a corker of a talker, a heller of a storyteller, dawn’s first light and a downright delight.”