HIP-HOP THEATER PERFORMER DANNY HOCH AT BMC

Hip-hop theater pioneer Danny Hoch will bring his sharply observed, activist theater to Bryn Mawr on Friday, Jan. 28, at 8 p.m. in Goodhart Hall. Tickets are $15 for the general public; $12.50 for senior citizens, faculty and staff of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges; and $5 for Tri-College students. This performance contains adult themes and language. For tickets, call x5210 or e-mail Helene Studdy at hstuddy@brynmawr.edu.

A native New Yorker, Hoch attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, studied theater in London on a scholarship, and later produced his first stage show, Pot Melting, in 1991. In 1995, his second solo theater show, Some People, was made into an HBO special that earned him an Obie Award. That same year, when he was just 24, Newsweek named Hoch "Performance Artist of the Year."

In 1999, Hoch co-wrote and acted in the film White Boys. The following year, the film version of his one-man show Jails, Hospitals and Hip-hop was also released. His other television and film credits include Bamboozled, Washington Heights, Prison Song, Subway Stories, Thin Red Line and Black Hawk Down. His writings on race, class and hip-hop have appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Harper's and The Nation.

In addition to winning two Obies, Hoch has received several prestigious fellowships including a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Theater Fellowship, a Sundance Writers Fellowship, a Tennessee Williams Fellowship and a Fellowship at the New School 's Vera List Center for Art & Politics.

Hoch's appearance at Bryn Mawr is part of the College's yearlong Performing Arts Series, featuring some of this country's finest performance artists and musicians.

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