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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, Creating Your Own Monologue and Total Chaos.
Mr. Hoch founded the Hip-Hop Theater Festival in 2000 which has since presented over 100 Hip-Hop Generation plays from around the globe and now appears annually in New York, Chicago, DC and San Francisco/Oakland.
Poet Jerry Quickley has performed in venues such the Royal National Theater Company, and received multiple commissions from the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. He contributes to a variety of books and publications, including Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop, and the Voice of a New Generation, and Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation. He can be seen in the documentaries A Night of Ferocious Joy, Spit, SlamNation!, Poetic Justice, and the PBS documentary Senior Year. He has toured his work widely and his work has been presented by a wide range of institutions including, Columbia University, Stanford, Dartmouth, the Museums of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Helsinki, and the Warhol Museum, among others. Jerry is also a 2008 Stanford University Visiting IDA Fellow.
