Schyleen Qualls

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, the first major museum of its kind in the world. In February 2010, a documentary film she co-wrote and co-produced, “Ben Ingram vs the State of Mississippi” premiered at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles. Other documentaries she has written include the award-winning, “Family Reunion, Americans at Festac” seen in 74 countries and “Run Sister Run” with legendary photographer and filmmaker, Gordon Parks. 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.”