Danny Hoch

DANNY HOCH is an actor, playwright and director whose plays "Pot Melting," "Some People," and "Jails, Hospitals, Hip-Hop" have garnered many awards including two 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.His credits for film and television include "Bamboozled," "Washington Heights," "Prison Song," "Some People," "Subway Stories," "Thin Red Line," "Whiteboys," "Blackhawk Down," "American Splendor," "War Of The Worlds," "Lucky You," "HBO Def Poetry," the film version of "Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop," "We Own The Night," and "Henry's Crime."

Danny performed as part of the original cast for Ethan Coen and Woody Allen's play "Relatively Speaking" on Broadway, directed by John Turturro. 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.

He directed Will Power's hit show "Flow" at New York Theatre Workshop, as well as the bilingual "Representa" at the SFIAF, and his own "Till The Break Of Dawn" at New York's Abrons Arts Center in 2007. He was the 2007 Sundance Theatre Lab's Playwright- In-Residence and was awarded a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for Drama. His play, "Taking Over," about gentrification had sold out runs at Berkeley Rep, The Kirk Douglas in Los Angeles and New York City's Public Theater.

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