Idris Goodwin is a playwright, director, break beat poet and educator. He is the Director of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College and a 2021 United States Artist Fellow. Idris is a highly sought after writer for multi generational audiences, produced and commissioned by Regional, Community and Academic Theater institutions across the country. Idris's play The Way The Mountain Moved was commissioned and produced as part of Oregon Shakespeare’s groundbreaking American Revolutions series. His work has been produced Off Broadway, The Humana Festival at Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Steppenwolf Theater, The Kennedy Center, The Denver Center for The Performing Arts, Cleveland Playhouse, and Company One. He’s received awards and development support from the NEA, The Ford, Mellon and Edgerton Foundation, Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor Program, The Eugene O’Neill Center, The Lark Playwriting Center and New Harmony Project. Idris is the 2018-2019 recipient of the Playwright Center's McKnight Fellowship. These Are The Breaks (Write Bloody, 2011), his debut collection of essays and poetry, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Inauguration a chapbook co-written with Nico Wilkinson (Haymarket Books) won the 2017 Literary Arts Award from The Pikes Peak Arts Council. He's performed his poetry on HBO, The Discovery Channel, Sesame Street and National Public Radio. Idris is a member of The Dramatists Guild, serves on the boards of TYA/USA and The Children’s Theatre Foundation of America. You can find many of his plays at Playscripts.Com.