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Danny Hoch is an actor, playwright and director whose plays Pot Melting, Some People, and Jails, Hospitals, Hip-Hop have garnered many awards including 2 OBIES, an NEA Solo Theatre Fellowship, Sundance Writers Fellowship, CalArts/Alpert Award in Theatre and a Tennessee Williams Fellowship. His theatre work has toured to 50 U.S. cities and 15 countries. He is a Senior Fellow at the New School's Vera List Center for Art & Politics and his writings on hip-hop, race and class have appeared in the Village Voice, New York Times, Harper's, The Nation, American Theatre, and various books: Out Of Character, Extreme Exposure, Laughing in the Dark, and Creating Your Own Monologue, Utopia In Performance. His book Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop is in its second printing by Villard Books/Random House.
His writing and acting credits for television and film include Bamboozled, Washington Heights, Prison Song, Subway Stories, Thin Red Line, Whiteboys, Blackhawk Down, American Splendor, War Of The Worlds, Lucky You, HBO Def Poetry, and he stars alongside Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Duvall, Eva Mendes and Mark Wahlberg in the upcoming We Own The Night and also HBO's new series, Wyclef Jean In America. Danny's own Some People (HBO), and the movie Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop were recently released on DVD.
Mr. Hoch founded the Hip-Hop Theater Festival in 2000 which has since presented over 75 hip-hop generation plays from all over the world and now appears annually in New York, Chicago, DC and San Francisco/Oakland. He directed Will Power's hit show, Flow, at New York Theatre Workshop, as well as the bilingual Representa at the the San Francisco International Arts Festival. Most recently, he is the recipient of a 2005-2006 Performing Americas Grant from the Doris Duke Foundation/Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and a 2006 Creative Capital Grant. He sits on the board of Theatre Communications Group and the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival. Look out for Danny Hoch's new epic play, Till the Break of Dawn.
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