Carl Hancock Rux

Carl Hancock Rux is an award winning writer and performer; former Head of the MFA Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of the Arts (2006–09) and has taught or been in residence at University of California–San Diego, Stanford University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Hollins University, University of Iowa and Brown University. He is the recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts; Obie and BESSIE award; the Village Voice Literary prize; New York Press Club Journalism Award for Entertainment News; subject of a CINE Golden Eagle Award winning documentary and featured in the New York Times Magazine "Thirty Artists Under The Age of Thirty Most Likely to Influence Culture in the Next Thirty Years".