Jon Tuttle

Jon Tuttle

Jon Tuttle

Jon Tuttle

Jon Tuttle will retire from Francis Marion University in August, 2024, as Distinguished Professor of English, Director of University Honors, Nellie Cooke Sparrow Writer-in-Residence, and an FMU Trustees Research Scholar.

He has received the South Carolina Governor’s Award in the Humanities and both the Founders Award and Lifetime Service Award from South Carolina Theater Association, and has served on the boards of the South Carolina Academy of Authors, the Florence Regional Arts Alliance, and the Jasper Project.

He was for many years the Playwright-in-Residence and Literary Manager at Trustus Theater in Columbia, SC, and is the author of The Trustus Collection (2019), Two South Carolina Plays (2009) and about a dozen indivually-published plays. He is also editor of South Carolina Onstage (2023) and David Kranes: Selected Plays (2011).