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Quinn is a co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of the OBIE Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company. Since 1995, Quinn has been one of the leading artists with the company, co-creating many of the company's signature original works of theatre and touring them to venues and festivals in Brazil, Germany, Scotland, England, Romania, Poland, Peru, Italy, Ukraine, Lithuania and Ireland, among others. He has directed, designed and performed with the company since its inception and has turned his focus to the Pig Iron School since its founding in 2011.

For 20 years, Quinn taught courses in acting and movement theatre at Swarthmore College. Additionally, he has been on the faculty of the Headlong Performance Institute and has taught courses at Princeton University, Dartmouth College, University of the Arts, and Arcadia University. Quinn has taught workshops internationally in Thailand, Ukraine, Argentina, Romania, Hungary, Russia, China, and the UAE and throughout the United States at Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, UVA, Wesleyan, Utah State, Georgetown, American University, and UPenn, among many others. Additionally, he has taught professional theatre training workshops in Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco for the past 25 years. Quinn is the recipient of a Henry Luce Scholar Fellowship sponsoring a year of professional work in Bali, Indonesia, a USA Eisenhower Fellowship, a USA Knight Fellowship, a Fox Foundation Actor Fellowship, an Independence Foundation Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, and was co-Director of the NEH Institute for Higher Education in 2023. He has published essays for Routledge, Yale’s Theater journal, and for Amtrak’s magazine, among other publications.