Head of Writing for Performance Program

Carl Hancock Rux is a published poet, essayist, novelist and playwright. His plays and performance works for theater have been produced and or commissioned throughout the United States and internationally at venues including The Joseph Papp Public Theater, the Robert E. Fischer Center for the Performing Arts, PS 122, the Kitchen, HERE Arts Center, New Victory Theater, Lincoln center (Serious Fun & Outdoors Festival), Aaron Davis Hall, the BAM Harvey Theater (Next Wave Festival), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Mass MOCA (Mass.), the Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas (Seattle, Washington), Theater X (Milwaulkee, Wisconsin), University of Ghana at Legon (West Africa), Ebenezor Experimental Theater Festival (Sweden) Maison des Arts (Creteil, France), and the Victoria Theater (Singapore) among others. Plays include include "Geneva Cottrell, Waiting for the Dog to Die", "Mycenaean", "Chapter & Verse", "The No Black Male Show", "Smoke, Lilies & Jade", "Singing In the Womb of Angels", "Yanga", "Song of Sad Young Men" and the libretto for two operas: "'The Blackamoor Angel" and "Makandal". As a radio journalist he has been a guest commentator on WNYC and for XM radio's The Bob Edward's Show as well as co-wrote and hosted National Public Radio's "Walt Whitman: Songs of Myself", winner of the New York Press Club Journalism Award for Entertainment News. As a recording artist he has recorded three cd's: "Rux Revue" (Sony 550), "Apothecary Rx (Giant Step) and "Good Bread Alley"( Thirsty Ear). Rux is the subject of "Carl Hancock Rux , Coming of Age," (Larry Clamage/Richard Maniscalco for Voices of America) recipient of the CINE Golden Eagle award for television documentary. Carl Hancock Rux has written for (and performed with) several dance companies including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Urban Bush Women, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., Jane Comfort & Co., and created the title role in the Robert Wilson/Bernice Johnson Reagon opera 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony" which had its world premiere at the Paris Opera (Garnier). Mr. Rux is the recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts Prize, and the Bessie Schomburg Award, the Village Voice Literary Prize, Fresh Poet Award, National Endowment for the Arts/Theater Communication Group Playwright in Residence fellowship, NEA Leadership Initiatives Meet the Composer Grant, the Kitchen Theater Artist Award, Rockefeller Map grant, Creative Capital Artist grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Gregory Millard fellowship, NYFA Prize, Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) Arts & Artists in Progress Award and was shortlisted for the United Artist Fellowship. He is the author of the Village Voice Literary prize winning collection of poetry "Pagan Operetta"(Fly By Night Press/Autonomedia), the novel "Asphalt" (Simon & Schuster) and the OBIE award winning play "Talk" (TCG).