Region IV is proud to announce that our keynote speaker for Festival 54 will be Quentin Darrington.
The Keynote address will be at 8pm on Feb. 2, 2022.
Quentin Earl Darrington was most recently seen on Broadway as Agwe in the Tony Award winning revival of Once On This Island for which he earned a Grammy nomination. He made his Broadway debut in the 2010 Tony nominated revival of Ragtime, starring as Coalhouse Walker Jr. and was also seen as Old Deuteronomy in the Broadway revival of CATS.
Currently he is starring in the much anticipated new Broadway show MJ the Musical as Joe Jackson.
A native of Florida, his extensive career has taken him from the Bay to Broadway and beyond performing in numerous shows and concerts across 46 US states, Canada, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, Russia, New Zealand and Kenya; also in the national tours of Memphis, The Color Purple, The Lion King, and Ragtime. Q has also starred in productions at The Kennedy Center, NY City Center, Papermill Playhouse, the MUNY, The Cincinnati Playhouse, Sacramento Music Circus, and the Goodspeed Opera House among others. In addition to his stage career, Q has recently guest starred on NCIS NOLA, The Blacklist, Elementary, Madam Secretary, The Good Fight, and recurs on the new CBS drama The Code.
He holds an MFA from University of Central Florida and a BFA from University of South Florida.
