Written & Performed by Danny Hoch
Directed by Tony Taccone
January 11–February 24
World Premiere
Like Sarah Jones, Anna Deavere Smith and other solo performers who brought stunning shows to our stage, Danny Hoch took Berkeley Rep by storm with Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop. Now Danny returns to unveil his latest work—a one-man tour de force that captures the indelible characters of his neighborhood, where the melting pot is boiling over with ethnic and economic tensions. Danny effortlessly transforms across the boundaries of race, age and gender, masterfully depicting a city in transition with compassionate and hilarious results. This explosive, and already highly contraversial show about gentrification is guranteed to provoke, inspire, and entertain.
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See the Jan 18 San Francisco Chronicle review of the show here.
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. He is a Senior Fellow at the New Schools 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 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 and HBO Def Poetry, in addition to his own Some People (HBO), and the film version of Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop, 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. He directed Will Power's hit solo show Flow at New York Theatre Workshop. Most recently, he is the recipient of a 2005-2006 Performing Americas Grant from the Doris Duke Foundation/Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a 2006 Creative Capital Grant, and his new play Till The Break Of Dawn, will premiere in New York in 2006. He sits on the board of Theatre Communications Group and the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival.