about schyleen ...
Schyleen C. Qualls, Founder and President of Arkeon Entertainment, 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.”
Schyleen Qualls is the Artistic Co-Founder and Trustee Emeritus of the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, one of the world’s foremost dance companies, based in Denver, Colorado. She was featured with the Dance Ensemble on PBS in the documentary film, Dancing Along the Nile, filmed at the Cairo Opera House.
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.”
Recently, Schyleen Qualls was Director of the Capital Campaign for the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), the first major museum of its kind in the world, which opened in San Francisco in December of 2005.