Carl Hancock Rux Writer
Carl Hancock Rux (born March 24, in Harlem, New York City) is an American poet, singer-songwriter, essayist, OBIE Award winning dramatist, novelist, actor and director. His work has explored race, religion, politics, sexuality, isolation, and personal relationships.The New York Times critic Margo Jefferson assessed "Mr. Rux's ideas have the urgency and passion of actions. He draws on satire, rhetoric, naturalism (the kind, Strindberg said, seeks out the points where great battles take place), and poetry (that) enters a lyrical, perhaps painful private space that we have not been prepared for.".His archives are housed at the Billy Rose Theater Division of the New York Public Library, the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution as well as the Film and Video/Theater and Dance Library of the California Institute of the Arts. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Alpert Award in the Arts.
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