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Carl Hancock Rux (b. March 24, 1974, Harlem, New York) is a published poet, playwright , novelist, essayist and recording artist.

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Biography

Born Carl Stephen Hancock in Harlem, New York, ^[1] Rux's mother was institutionalized for schizophrenia. ^[2]. After the death of his maternal grandmother ^[3] he entered the New York City foster care system at the age of four ^[4]. Adopted at the age of fifteen by his great uncle and aunt ^[5] the surname "Rux"was added to his name ^[6](the name Rux is of German derivation. It is also a city near Wroclaw, Poland situated on the Oder river in Lower Silesia, formerly a jurisdiction of Bohemia, Austria and Prussia) A graduate of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts ^[7], from 2006 to 2009, Rux was the Head of the MFA Writing for Performance Program created by Suzan-Lori Parks at the California Institute of the Arts.

Literature

Rux began his career as a playwright ^[8] with Song of Sad Young Men , produced off-Broadway, directed by Tony award winning actress Trazana Beverly ^[9] and starring actor Isaiah Washington. ^[10] The play was written in response to Rux's older brother's death from AIDS. ^[11] Carl Hancock Rux is among several poets and writers (including Paul Beatty, Tracie Morris, Dael Orlandersmith, Willie Perdomo, Kevin Powell, Maggie Estep, Reg E. Gaines, Edwin Torres and Saul Williams) to emerge from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, founded by poets Miguel Algarin and poet/playwright Miguel Pinero as a home for Puerto Rican poets and other poets of various nationalities and ethnic groups, most of whom were included in the poetry anthology Aloud, Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Cafe , winner of the 1994 American Book Award. ^[12] . His first book of poetry, Pagan Operetta received the Village Voice Literary prize and was featured on the weekly's cover story: Eight Writers on the Verge of (Impacting) the Literary Landscape. He is also the author of the novel Asphalt and the OBIE Award winning play Talk ^[13].

Music

As a teenager, Carl Hancock Rux sang with the Boys Choir of Harlem and Hezekiah Walker's Love Fellowship gospel choir. Incorporating jazz, gospel and hip-hop into a poetic vocal style that was often half spoken, half sung, Rux was discovered by singer/songwriter Nona Hendryx while performing at CBGB's in New York City with singer Toshi Reagon, and signed to her independent label, Free Records . Managed by Hendryx and Vicki Wickham, the cd, Cornbread, Cognac & Collard Green Revolution was produced by Hendryx and Mark Batson; featured musicians Craig Harris, Ronnie Drayton and Lonnie Plaxico (unreleased). After seeing Rux perform, Polly Anthony, then president of Epic Records, signed Rux to Sony/550. His debut cd, Rux Revue , recorded and produced in Los Angeles by the Dust Brothers,Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf, featured drummers Joey Waronker (formerly of REM ) and James Gadson, bassists Atom Ellis (of Link Wray/The New Cars) and Carol Kaye, keyboardist James Hall, and bass guitarist Wah-Wah Watson. The cd was voted one of the top ten alternative music CDs of 1998 (New York Times/Year in Music). Rux made several appearances in the U.S. and Europe, most notably on stage with Macy Gray, Erykah Badu and The Roots. Though the album received critical acclaim it failed to cross over into the mainstream. In 2000 Rux asked to be released from his deal with Sony, citing their "lack of promotion" of his debut effort, and recorded a follow up album, "Apothecary Rx", for Giant Step records, an independent label owned by music promoter Maurice Bernstein. The cd, co-produced by Carl Hancock Rux and Stewart Lerman with Rob Hyman (of The Hooters), featured rock musician Vernon Reid , experimental jazz violinist Leroy Jenkins and Brazilian percussionist Venecius Cantuera. Rux toured Europe again and recorded songs on the David Holmes cd "Bow Down To The Exit Sign" as well as collaborated with Portishead producer Geoff Barrow for Stephanie McKay's debut cd, McKay.His fourth studio cd, Good Bread Alley , released by Thirsty Ear Records, was co-produced by the artist and label owner Peter Gordon.

Theater/Dance

As a child, Rux was first exposed to theater by Emmy award winning director Neema Barnette and later studied acting with Robert Earl Jones (father of actor James Earl Jones). His first play, Song of sad Young Men , written in response to his older brother's death from AIDS, was directed by Tony award winning actress Trazana Beverly, starred actor Isaiah Washington ^[14] and received eleven AUDELCO nominations. Having continued to work in the theater as a playwright throughout the 90s, his play Talk (TCG Press) was produced at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in 2002, directed by Marion McClinton and starring actors Anthony Mackie, Karen Kandel, Reg E. Cathy, John Seitz, Maria Tucci and James Himelsbach. Set as a panel discussion structured according to Plato's Socratic Dialogues, the play focused on a (fictional) African-American writer, Archer Aymes who became a controversial overnight sensation for his first book,(an experimental novel inspired by the relationship between Agave and her son Pentheus from Euripedes The Bacchae ) only to commit suicide in a prison cell ten years later. The play won seven OBIE awards. As a writer and frequent guest performer in theater and dance, Carl Hancock Rux's collaborators have included Marlies Yearby (choreographer of the Broadway musical Rent ), the Urban Bush Women, Jane Comfort & Co., Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company,and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Rux received a BESSIE© award for his direction of the Lisa Jones/Alva Rogers dance musical, Stained . Rux originated the title role in the folk opera production of The Temptation of St. Anthony , based on the Gustave Flaubert novel, directed by Robert Wilson with book, libretto and music by Bernice Johnson Reagon. The production debuted in June 2003 as part of the RuhrTriennale festival in Duisburg Germany with subsequent performances at the Greek Theater in Siracusa, Italy, the Festival di Peralada in Peralada, Spain, the Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria in Santander, Spain, and Sadler's Wells in London, Great Britain, before making its American premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music/ BAM Next Wave Festival in October 2004. Returning to Europe, the production was mounted at the Teatro Piccinni in Bari, Italy, the Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, Spain and the Teatro Espanol in Madrid, Spain. The official "world premiere" was held in 2005 at the Paris Opera becoming the first all African American opera to perform on its stage since the inauguration of the Académie Nationale de Musique - Théâtre de l'Opéra in 1875.

Radio

Carl Hancock Rux was the host and artistic programming director of the WBAI radio show, Live from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe , contributing correspondent for XM radio's The Bob Edwards Show and frequent guest host on WNYC's Soundcheck . ^[15] Rux co-wrote and narrated the radio documentary, Walt Whitman; Songs of Myself (Elena Park/Curtis Fox producers), awarded the 2006 New York Press Club Journalism Award for Entertainment News.

Film/Television

Rux is the subject of the Voices of America television documentary, "Carl Hancock Rux, Coming of Age", (Larry Clamage/Richard Maniscalo producers), recipient of the CINE Golden Eagle Award. He also appeared in the film, "The Grand Inquisitor" (as "The One") directed by Tony Torn, screenplay by Ruth Margraff; the documentary "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: a Film About Gil Scott-Heron" (as “Carl Hancock Rux”) and in The Bratz movie (as music teacher "Mr. Whitman").

Published Works

Elmina Blues
Aloud; Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Paperback, 1994) ^[16] ^[17]
Konzepte 17 (Paperback, 1994)
Action! Nuyorican Theater Festival Anthology (Paperback,
Soul's Survival; Black Power, Politics and Pleasure (Hardback/Paperback,
Listen Up! Spoken Word Poetry (Paperback,
Pagan Operetta (Paperback,
Bum Rush The Page (Paperback,
Heights Of The Marvelous (Paperback,
Open City Literary Journal #13 (Paperback,
Juncture (Paperback,
Asphalt (Hardback,
Everything But the Burden (Paperback,
Talk (Paperback,

Plays/Texts for Dance

Song of Sad Young Men Producer’s Club Theater/Aaron Davis Hall/National Black Theater Festival
Geneva Cottrell, Waiting for the Dog to Die Performance Space 122, Penumbra Theater (St. Paul, Minn.)
Pipe; a Courtroom Drama (with Garland Farwell) Performance Space 122
Smoke, Lilies & Jade Joseph Papp Public Theater (Next Stages)/ Center for New Performance (Calarts)
Pork Dream in the American House of Image
Not the Flesh of Others Dixon Place
Singing In the Womb of Angels Dixon Place
Who Dat Who Killed Better Dayz Jones? Aaron Davis Hall
The (No) Black Male Show The Kitchen
Mycenaean BAM Next Wave
Asphalt REDCAT
From An Asphalt Yard Musical Theaterworks/ Apollo Theater/Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center
Chapter & Verse Nuyorican Poets Café/Minetta Lane Theater
Jane Comfort's Asphalt (with Toshi Reagon, DJ Spooky) Joyce Theater
Fast Forward Dreaming In a Two Step (with Marlies Yearby, Jing Jing Luo)American Dance Festival at Jacob’s Pillow Judson Church/Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Kick The Boot, Raise the Dust An' Fly; A Recipe for Buckin Maison des arts de Créteil (France)
Totin' Business & Carryin' Bones Maison des arts de Créteil (France)
Yanga (with Anita Gonzalez, Cooper-Moore) Tribeca Performing Arts Center/Montclair State College
The Beautiful (with Marlies Yearby, Laurie Carlos) Judson Church/Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Soul Deep (with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, David Murray) Walker Arts Center,National Tour
Of Urban Intimacies Lincoln Center Serious Fun!,Central Park Summerstage, National Tour
That Was Like This and This Was Like That Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Central Park Summerstage, National Tour
Shelter (with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) City Center
Hair Stories (with Urban Bush Women) BAM Majestic Theater, Esplanade Theater (Singapore), Hong Kong Arts Festival
Seeds (with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) Aaron Davis Hall
Jubilation! (with Jubilation! dance Company) Apollo Theater
Certo! Roberta! (with Roberta Garrison) Scuola di Danza Mimma Testa in Trastevere (Rome, Italy) Teatro de natal infantil Raffaelly Beligni (Naples, Italy)
Seeking Pyramidic Balance (with M'Zwa dance/Maia Claire Garrison) 651 Arts
Say It Loud (with DJ Spooky, Jane Cortez, Eric Priestley) National Black Arts Festival
Makandal (with Edouard Duval Carrie) Harlem Stage
The Blackamoor Angel (with Deidre Murray) Bard Summer Festival/Spiegeltent

Discography

Albums

Cornbread, Cognac, Collard Green Revolution (unreleased)

Free Music Producers Nona Hendryx/ Mark Batson

Rux Revue

Sony 550 Music Producers The Dust Brothers; Tom Rothrock & Rob Schnapf

Apothecary Rx

Giant Step Records Producers: C.H. Rux, Stewart Lerman

Good Bread Alley

Thirsty Ear Music 2006 Producers Peter Gordon,Dave Darlington, Peter Gordon

Singles/Featured Artist

Lamentations (You, Son) (12")

Giant Step Records

Lamentations (You, Son) (12", Promo)

Giant Step Records

A New Dimension (12") I Am

Forma Recordings

Abstract Jazz Lounge III (2xLP, Album) I Am (Original Mix)

Nite Grooves

Bow Down To The Exit Sign/Slip Your Skin/Compared to What/Living Room

Go! Beat 1500 Records

Optometry (CD, Album) Asphalt (Tome II)

Thirsty Ear

Deep House Vol. 2 - Harley & Muscle In The Mix (2xCD) Lamentations(You,Son)

Clubstar 2001

Eclectic Aesthetic (Part 2) (CDr, Mixed) Intro To (R)Evolution

Sound Signature

Sessions: Volume One (CD, Comp, Mixed) Lamentations (You, Son)

Giant Step Records

Soul Sessions 2 (2xLP) Protean Character

Giant Step Records

Soul Sessions 2 (CD, Comp) Protean Character

Giant Step Records

Fall 2003 Records Sampler (CD, Comp) Lamentations

Giant Step Records

Loop Select 005 (CD + DVD) Lamentations (You, Son)

LOOP Recordings Aot(ear)oa

Simply Good Music Vol. 1 (CD, Comp) Lamentations

Giant Step Records

The Green Room 003:(Ear)th (CD) Protean Character

LOOP Recordings Aot(ear)oa

Thirsty Ear Blue Series Sampler (CD, Smplr) Thadeus Star

Thirsty Ear

Spoken Word

Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance

Rhino Records

Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like The Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work

Rhino Records

Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work 1888-2006

Shout Factory

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre: Revelations A Musical Retrospective...

Cast Albums

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Producers: Bernice Johnson Reagon/Toshi Reagon

Contributing Writer/Works Cited

Absolute Wilson: The Biography

Prestel Publishing/ by Katharina Otto-Bernstein

Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age
College Guide for Performing Arts Majors 2009
Reviews, New York City: Movement Research at the Judson Church

by Rose Anne ThomDance

All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul
The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print
We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006
Brave New Bass: Interviews and Lessons with the Innovators, Trendsetters and Visionaries
Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture (Critical America)
Who Says?: Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and Community

by William DeGenaro/ Pitt Comp Literacy Culture

Television at the Movies: Cinematic and Critical Responses to American Broadcasting
All Music Guide to Hip-Hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap and Hip-Hop
Mother Jones Magazine
The Great Rock Discography
Alternative Press Index
The New York Times Theater Reviews
The New York Times Theater Reviews 1997-1998

Routledge Press