Claudia Alick

Claudia Alick, Executive Producer and Artistic Director of Smokin Word Productions, is the author of the chap-books "The Haiku Scam", "Disingenuous", hip-hop articals for BUST magazine, and many plays that have been seen on the stages of The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, LaMama ETC, 45 Bleeker, Chashama Experimental Theatre, New Perspectives Theatre, and PS 122 in the 2002 and 2003 NYC Hip Hop Theatre Festivals. Her play "6 Hits" won the audience award in the Downtown Urban Theatre Festival. She is a recipieant of The Starving Artists Award and a Poets & Writers grant. Performance credits include 2 seasons of the Peabody award winning series HBO's Def Poetry Jam, the film "TerrorMarketers", and features in the documentaries "WordJunky" (dir. Audrey Colcannon) and Ladies on the Mic's project on Women in hip-hop (dir. Jessica Habie). Claudia teaches spoken word and playwrighting workshops and has guest lectured at New York University (NYU) and Montgomery College , with Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre's South East Project, P.A.L. After-school centers, Riker's Island with Community Word Project, and at high-schools in New York with Creative Arts Team. Currently she is pursuing her MA in Performance Studies at NYU and serves on the board for The Community Dish. Claudia recently recieved the Staving Artist Award to continue work on her hip-hop theatre book. To find out more visit www.claudiaalick.com or smokinword.org.