#Kevin Ligon

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"Ode to the Midwest" by Kevin Young

The country I come from Is called the Midwest —Bob Dylan

I want to be doused in cheese

& fried. I want to wander

the aisles, my heart's supermarket stocked high

as cholesterol. I want to die wearing a sweatsuit—

I want to live forever in a Christmas sweater,

a teddy bear nursing off the front. I want to write

a check in the express lane. I want to scrape

my driveway clean

myself, early, before anyone's awake—

that'll put em to shame— I want to see what the sun

sees before it tells the snow to go. I want to be

the only black person I know.

I want to throw out my back & not

complain about it. I wanta drive

two blocks. Why walk—

I want love, n stuff—

I want to cut my sutures myself.

I want to jog down to the river

& make it my bed—

I want to walk its muddy banks

& make me a withdrawal.

I tried jumping in, found it frozen—

I'll go home, I guess, to my rooms where the moon

changes & shines like television.

Art: Glenn Ligon, Double America 2, 2014

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January 10, 2023: South Carolina House Bill 3549 "South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023" was Introduced by:

Sponsors: Reps. Harris, Burns, Chumley, Pace, Nutt, Beach, S. Jones, White, Long, O'Neal, Magnuson, Haddon, Willis, McCabe, Lawson, Trantham, Ligon, Kilmartin, Vaughan, Pedalino, Guffey and Cromer

This Bill would redefine a "person" to include fetuses at any stage of development. An Abortion would become a "homicide" or "assault" and the fetuses would be given the same protections under state laws... including The Death Penalty to the Woman.

Section 2 reads "Human life, created in the image of God,"

Wait!

"Created in the image of God,"

So, they're going to start this by doing exactly what The Founding Fathers did not want done in the United States Government.

Revolutionary Era:

Amanda Porterfield, Professor of Religion at Florida State University

Thomas Jefferson explained his support for religious freedom in practical terms: “It does me no injury for my neighbor to believe in twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

Rates of church membership declined and many church buildings, especially in the South, stood in need of repair.

Soldiers in the Continental Army were notoriously irreverent. Free thought and even feminism rose in popularity.

People of the United States, only after the violent attacks on religion in the French Revolution became concerned about the low level of religion, so religion became the latest trend."

Steven K. Green, Teaches Law and History at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon

If the question is whether the Founding Fathers relied on Protestant Christian principles in drafting the essential documents and in organizing the new governments, then the answer is a resounding “NO.”

1765-1790: Writings of the period, including speeches, debates, letters, pamphlets, and even sermons, reflect the overwhelming influence of Enlightenment, Whig, and classical republican theories.

1775-1791: In 9 of 13 Colonies People went from maintaining religious establishments to achieving disestablishment

At Our founding he United States became the 1st nation in history to abolish religious disqualifications from officeholding and civic engagement.

The founders purposely created a nation that based its legitimacy on popular will, not on some higher power."

Kevin M. Kruse, Professor of History at Princeton University

Demographically speaking, America certainly resembled a “nation of Christians” at the time of its founding and has ever since. But it’s a rather different proposition to claim that the Founders established the new American government as a “Christian nation.”

Clearly, they did not.

I have to ask how does anyone know what the image of god looks like?

Are they going with the traditional male version of god being a man, and if they are does that mean a girl will remain a fetus and therefore Abortion is allowed?

Are they going with the more recent Feminist view that we don't know, god could be anything even a women"?

Maybe they're going with "The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" Oh wait, they can't mean that because we don't look like Flying Spaghetti Monsters. Do we?

No one can say, no one has seen god to know what it looks like... Not even Moses... Well, maybe he did see god and god is a Burning Bush?

No one will ever know, unless they die, there really is a heaven and they see god...

Although it's more likely Saint Peter will meet them at the Pearly Gates with 1 Question...

"What Part "'Of Judge Not, That Thee Be Not Judged"' Did You Not Understand?"

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anastasiabway: Profiles of the Russians on the train to Paris. "Stay, I Pray You" #maxandjb3takeover #anastasiamusical #fanastasias #fanastasia @mollyisrushing @shinamorris #KevinLigon @hartfordstage @jamesbrowniii @maxmclayton

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Beauty and the Beast - Paper Mill Playhouse 2019

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OPENING NIGHT!!!!!! Achy arms but all worth it!! #beautyandthebeast #papermillplayhouse #lumiere #beast -@tallysessions #cogsworth - Kevin Ligon

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Modern titans of the faith

Current mood

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animals, dinosaurs and the entire article about kevin de bruyne from wikipedia in dutch

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Logic On Fire: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones from Media Gratiae on Vimeo.

The official Martyn Lloyd-Jones Documentary by Media Gratiae.

Shot on location in Wales, England, Scotland, and the United States, Logic On Fire features interviews with Jeremy Bailey, Ben Bailie, Keith Batstone, Ann Beatt, Christopher Catherwood, Elizabeth Catherwood, Jonathan Catherwood, George Curry, Andrew Davies, D. Eryl Davies, Ian M. Densham, Adam Desmond, Liz Desmond, Kevin DeYoung, Ligon Duncan, Eifion Evans, Sinclair B. Ferguson, Ian Hamilton, W. Vernon Higham, Basil Howlett, John MacArthur, Bethan Marshall, Anthony Mathenia, Conrad Mbewe, Jason Meyer, Iain H. Murray, John Snyder, R.C. Sproul, Ceinwan Swann, Justin Taylor, Geoff Thomas, David A. Tucker, Rhiannon Tunnicliffe, Jeremy Walker, Paul Washer, and many more on the accompanying Special Features and Extended Interviews disc. Also featuring never-before-seen vintage 8mm footage of the Doctor!

Connect with the film on Facebook and Twitter at logiconfire.org for more!

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Phantom of The Opera

The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - 25th Anniversary - Live At The Royal Albert Hall - October 2, 2011 (Pro-Shot's master) FORMAT:  MP4 (HD) CAST: Ramin Karimloo (The Phantom of the Opera), Sierra Boggess (Christine Daaé), Hadley Fraser (Raoul), Wendy Ferguson (Carlotta Giudicelli), Gareth Snook (Monsieur Firmin), Barry James (Monsieur André), Liz Robertson (Madame Giry), Wynne Evans (Ubaldo Piangi), Daisy Maywood (Meg Giry), Nick Holder (Joseph Buquet), Earl Carpenter (Auctioneer), Sergei Polunin (Slave Master) NOTES: Commonly referred to as "Live Stream Version 1" to differentiate from the other cinema live stream video of this production. Typically circulates as a 5.36 GB MKV file with AC3 5.1 audio. Has alternate takes from Live Stream Version 2 and the officially released verson. The first shot in this version is of the orchestra (pictured below). Another note is that Piangi does not hit the note the note in Hannibal ”Your army ha - ha - has come home!" (and the camera is zoomed out more than Version 2, showing Carlotta next to him). You can also see him put his hand on his collar bone near his throat, which he does not do in Version 2.

The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - February 28, 1988 (Highlights) FORMAT:  MP4 (HD) CAST: Michael Crawford (The Phantom of the Opera), Sarah Brightman (Christine Daaé), Steve Barton (Raoul) NOTES: About an hour and a half of the show, missing a bunch of the beginning of act 2, which starts in the middle of Don Juan. Clear video for its age The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - March 2, 2005 FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Hugh Panaro (The Phantom of the Opera), Julie Hanson (u/s Christine Daaé), John Cudia (Raoul) NOTES: Great quality video but the filmer seemed to lack in knowledge of the show so wideshots are more than usual. Amazing trio, but Hugh is a little less stronger this night The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - October 1, 2005 FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Hugh Panaro (The Phantom of the Opera), Sandra Joseph (Christine Daaé), Tim Martin Gleason (Raoul), Anne Runolfsson (Carlotta Giudicelli), James Romick (u/s Monsieur Firmin), George Lee Andrews (Monsieur André), Marilyn Caskey (Madame Giry), Larry Wayne Morbitt (Ubaldo Piangi), Kara Klein (Meg Giry) NOTES: Hugh's last night performing and Sandra gives a very sweet speech. Hugh Panaro's last performance at the time, includes curtain call and speeches at the end. Beautiful, clear picture with great detail and quality, and the entire cast was on fire. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - May 9, 2007 FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Gary Mauer (The Phantom of the Opera), Jennifer Hope Wills (Christine Daaé), Jason Mills (u/s Raoul), Patricia Phillips (u/s Carlotta Giudicelli), David Cryer (Monsieur Firmin), George Lee Andrews (Monsieur André), Sally Williams (u/s Madame Giry), Roland Rusinek (Ubaldo Piangi), Heather McFadden (Meg Giry) NOTES: A gorgeous video and the filmer knows the show very well. Includes a flub where Buquet fails to appear in time for Magical Lasso so Meg Giry gets in touch with her Leroux roots The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - October 13, 2012 (Lanelle's master) FORMAT:  VOB (no smalls) (SD) CAST: Hugh Panaro (The Phantom of the Opera), Trista Moldovan (Christine Daaé), Kyle Barisich (Raoul), Michele McConnell (Carlotta Giudicelli), Kevin Ligon (Monsieur Firmin), Aaron Galligan-Stierle (Monsieur André), Cristin Hubbard (Madame Giry), Christian Sebek (Ubaldo Piangi), Joelle Gates (Meg Giry) NOTES: Gorgeous video with vibrant and steady filming! Hugh and Trista are AMAZING together. Kyle is okay. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - March 9, 2013 (Matinee) FORMAT:  VOB (no smalls) (SD) CAST: Jeremy Stolle (u/s The Phantom of the Opera), Samantha Hill (Christine Daaé), Greg Mills (u/s Raoul), Michele McConnell (Carlotta Giudicelli), Tim Jerome (Monsieur Firmin), Richard Poole (u/s Monsieur André), Ellen Harvey (Madame Giry), Christian Sebek (Ubaldo Piangi), Kara Klein (Meg Giry) NOTES: Missing part of Act 1 (‘I Remember’ to the ballet from Il Muto), but otherwise complete. Jeremy Stolle makes a call for donations for the organisation 'Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' after curtain call. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - March 17, 2014 (Turnofthescorpion's master) FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Laird Mackintosh (u/s The Phantom of the Opera), Sara Jean Ford (alt Christine Daaé), Jeremy Hays (Raoul) NOTES: Not the most focused capture, shaky throughout, never really settles down. A head in bottom center of capture a good deal of the time on medium to wide shots. St. Patrick's Day, Laird Mackintosh does curtain call in a leprechaun hat. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - March 20, 2014 (Turnofthescorpion's master) FORMAT:  MP4 (HD) CAST: Greg Mills (u/s The Phantom of the Opera), Mary Michael Patterson (Christine Daaé), Jeremy Hays (Raoul), Satomi Hoffman (u/s Carlotta Giudicelli), Tim Jerome (Monsieur Firmin), Laird Mackintosh (Monsieur André), Ellen Harvey (Madame Giry), Christian Sebek (Ubaldo Piangi), Deanna Doyle (Meg Giry) The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - May 3, 2014 FORMAT:  MP4 (HD) CAST: Hugh Panaro (The Phantom of the Opera), Mary Michael Patterson (Christine Daaé), Jeremy Hays (Raoul) NOTES: Hugh’s last performance. Includes speeches.   The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - May 3, 2014 (Matinee) FORMAT:  MP4 (HD) CAST: Hugh Panaro (The Phantom of the Opera), Mary Michael Patterson (Christine Daaé), Jeremy Hays (Raoul) NOTES: Hugh’s last matinee. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - May 12, 2014 (inallyourfantasies's master) FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Norm Lewis (The Phantom of the Opera), Sierra Boggess (Christine Daaé), Jeremy Hays (Raoul), Michele McConnell (Carlotta Giudicelli), Tim Jerome (Monsieur Firmin), Laird Mackintosh (Monsieur André), Ellen Harvey (Madame Giry), Christian Sebek (Ubaldo Piangi) NOTES: First show for Norm Lewis and Sierra Boggess. There are two masters (joint masters) for this video: inallyourfantasies and turnofthescorpion The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - November 6, 2014 FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Laird Mackintosh (u/s The Phantom of the Opera), Kaley Ann Voorhees (alt Christine Daaé), Jeremy Hays (Raoul), Michele McConnell (Carlotta Giudicelli), Tim Jerome (Monsieur Firmin), Richard Poole (u/s Monsieur André), Ellen Harvey (Madame Giry), Christian Sebek (Ubaldo Piangi), Kara Klein (Meg Giry) The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - June 16, 2016 (SJ Bernly's master) FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: James Barbour (The Phantom of the Opera), Rachel Eskenazi-Gold (u/s Christine Daaé), Jordan Donica (Raoul), Michelle McConnell (Carlotta Giudicelli), Craig Bennett (Monsieur Firmin), Laird Mackintosh (Monsieur André), Rebecca Eichenberger (Madame Giry), Kara Klein (Meg Giry) NOTES: good capture, no real obstructions, center mezz The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - July 21, 2016 (SunsetBlvd79's master) FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: James Barbour (The Phantom of the Opera), Ali Ewoldt (Christine Daaé), Jordan Donica (Raoul), Michelle McConnell (Carlotta Giudicelli), Craig Bennett (Monsieur Firmin), Richard Poole (u/s Monsieur André), Rebecca Eichenberger (Madame Giry), John Easterlin (Ubaldo Piangi), Kara Klein (Meg Giry) The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - October, 2018 (hitmewithyourbethshot's master) FORMAT:  MP4 (HD) CAST: Ben Crawford (The Phantom of the Opera), Ali Ewoldt (Christine Daaé), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Raoul), Raquel Suarez Groen (Carlotta Giudicelli), Craig Bennett (Monsieur Firmin), Laird Mackintosh (Monsieur André), Maree Johnson (Madame Giry), Carlton Moe (Ubaldo Piangi), Kara Klein (Meg Giry) The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway - September, 2018 (NYCG8R's master) FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Ben Crawford (The Phantom of the Opera), Ali Ewoldt (Christine Daaé), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Raoul), Raquel Suarez Groen (Carlotta Giudicelli), Craig Bennett (Monsieur Firmin), Laird Mackintosh (Monsieur André), Maree Johnson (Madame Giry), Ted Keegan (u/s Ubaldo Piangi), Polly Baird (Meg Giry) The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - First National Tour (Christine) - August 29, 1993 (House-Cam's master) FORMAT:  VOB (no smalls) (SD) CAST: Davis Gaines (The Phantom of the Opera), Dale Kristien (Christine Daaé), Michael Piontek (Raoul), Leigh Munro (Carlotta Giudicelli), Calvin Remsberg (Monsieur Firmin), Norman Large (Monsieur André), Barbara Lang (Madame Giry), Gualtiero Negrini (Ubaldo Piangi), Elizabeth Stringer (Meg Giry) NOTES: Closing night in Los Angeles The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Fourth National Tour - February 19, 2014 (SunsetBlvd79's master) FORMAT:  MP4 (HD) CAST: Cooper Grodin (The Phantom of the Opera), Julia Udine (Christine Daaé), Ben Jacoby (Raoul) The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Fourth National Tour - August 12, 2015 FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Chris Mann (The Phantom of the Opera), Katie Travis (Christine Daaé), Storm Lineberger (Raoul), Jacquelynne Fontaine (Carlotta Giudicelli), David Benoit (Monsieur Firmin), Edward Staudenmayer (Monsieur André), Anne Kanengeiser (Madame Giry), Frank Viveros (Ubaldo Piangi), Morgan Cowling (Meg Giry) NOTES: More concentrated on full body shots and capturing all the action rather than close ups. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Fourth National Tour - November 16, 2016 (Matinee) (kradder32's master) FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Derrick Davis (The Phantom of the Opera), Kaitlyn Davis (alt Christine Daaé), Jordan Craig (Raoul), Trista Moldovan (Carlotta Giudicelli), David Benoit (Monsieur Firmin), Price Waldman (Monsieur André), Tynan Davis (u/s Madame Giry), Phumzile Sojola (Ubaldo Piangi), Emily Ramirez (Meg Giry) NOTES: Great video of the fourth national tour. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Hamburg - June 30, 2001 (Matinee) FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Michael Nicholson (alt The Phantom of the Opera), Olivia Safe (u/s Christine Daaé), Christopher Morandi (alt Raoul), Evelyn Werner (u/s Carlotta Giudicelli), Reinhard Schulze (u/s Monsieur Firmin), Anders Sohlman (Monsieur André), Linda Bruske (Madame Giry), Charlie Serrano (Ubaldo Piangi), Kate Lawrence (Meg Giry) NOTES: Last matinee of the original Hamburg production. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Las Vegas - August 28, 2006 FORMAT:  VOB (no smalls) (SD) CAST: Anthony Crivello (The Phantom of the Opera), Elizabeth Loyacano (Christine Daaé), Tim Martin Gleason (Raoul), Elena Jeanne Batman (Carlotta Giudicelli), Lawson Skala (Monsieur Firmin), John Leslie Wolfe (Monsieur André), Rebecca Spencer (Madame Giry), Larry Wayne Morbitt (Ubaldo Piangi), Brianne Morgan (Meg Giry) The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Las Vegas - August 8, 2008 (SunsetBlvd79's master) FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Anthony Crivello (The Phantom of the Opera), Kristi Holden (Christine Daaé), Andrew Ragone (Raoul) NOTES: Great capture of the reconfigured and shortened version of Phantom which had a long run in Vegas. Anthony really gives a powerful performance as the Phantom. A The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - São Paulo (Revival) - December 14, 2019 (Matinee) (Papa Rose 2015's master) FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Thiago Arancam (The Phantom of the Opera), Guilia Nadruz (alt Christine Daaé), Fred Silveira (Raoul), Bete Diva (Carlotta Giudicelli), Sandro Christopher (Monsieur Firmin), Leo Diniz (u/s Monsieur André), Taís Víera (Madame Giry), Cleyton Pulzi (Ubaldo Piangi), Fernanda Muniz (Meg Giry) NOTES: Excellent video shot during the closing weekend. This was Giulia's second-to-last performance.  

The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Scheveningen - 1993 (Pro-Shot's master) FORMAT:  VOB (no smalls) (SD) CAST: Henk Poort (The Phantom of the Opera), Joke de Kruijf (Christine Daaé), Peter de Smet (Raoul) The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Scheveningen - August 2, 1996 (House-Cam's master) FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Henk Poort (The Phantom of the Opera), Els Bongers (Christine Daaé), Peter de Smet (Raoul), Vera van Oostmerssen (Carlotta Giudicelli), Nico Schaap (Monsieur Firmin), Stan Lambregts (Monsieur André), Margaret Roest (Madame Giry), Ramon Remedios (Ubaldo Piangi), Natasha Knight (Meg Giry) The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Stuttgart - 2003 (House-Cam's master) FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Roy Weissensteiner (u/s The Phantom of the Opera), Marion Wilmer (u/s Christine Daaé), Carsten Lepper (Raoul) NOTES: Monitor video. Full stage shot and soundboard audio. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Sydmonton Festival - July, 1985 (Pro-Shot's master) FORMAT:  MP4 (HD) CAST: Colm Wilkinson (The Phantom of the Opera), Sarah Brightman (Christine Daaé) NOTES: Pretty bad quality due to age and being ripped from video to digital, but it shows the changes the show made before its opening in 1986. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Third National Tour (Music Box) - April 6, 2006 (musicinthestars's master) FORMAT:  VOB (no smalls) (SD) CAST: Gary Mauer (The Phantom of the Opera), Elizabeth Southard (alt Christine Daaé), Jim Weitzer (Raoul), Kim Stengel (Carlotta Giudicelli), John Jellison (Monsieur Firmin), D C Anderson (Monsieur André), Patti Davidson-Gorbea (Madame Giry), John Whitney (Ubaldo Piangi), Kate Wray (Meg Giry) NOTES: 2 camera edit of Elizabeth Southard's final performance. Very good and emotional show to watch. Real life husband and wife Phantom and Christine. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Third National Tour (Music Box) - August 2, 2007 FORMAT:  VOB (no smalls) (SD) CAST: John Cudia (The Phantom of the Opera), Marni Raab (Christine Daaé), Greg Mills (Raoul) NOTES: Beautiful video shot in widescreen, great color, excellent and steady camerawork. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - West End - 1995 (Pro-Shot's master) FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) |  TRADER'S NOTES: Act 1 only CAST: Ethan Freeman (The Phantom of the Opera), Jill Washington (Christine Daaé), Simon Bowman (Raoul) NOTES: Pro-shot by RUG The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - West End - February 26, 2005 FORMAT:  MP4 (HD) CAST: John Owen-Jones (The Phantom of the Opera), Rachel Barrell (Christine Daaé), Oliver Thornton (Raoul) NOTES: John Owen Jones last show before his return in 2010. Filmed from the stalls, a lot of close ups, especially of Rachel Barrell The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - West End - September 9, 2008 FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Ramin Karimloo (The Phantom of the Opera), Gina Beck (Christine Daaé), Simon Bailey (Raoul), Kate Radmilovic (Carlotta Giudicelli), Barry James (Monsieur Firmin), Gareth Snook (Monsieur André), Heather Jackson (Madame Giry), Rohan Tickell (Ubaldo Piangi), Tori Johns (Meg Giry) NOTES: Gina, Simon, Kate and Tori's first show. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - West End - December, 2018 (hitmewithyourbethshot's master) FORMAT:  MP4 (HD) CAST: David Thaxton (The Phantom of the Opera), Amy Manford (alt Christine Daaé), Jeremy Taylor (Raoul), Kimberly Blake (Carlotta Giudicelli), Ross Dawes (Monsieur Firmin), Mark Oxtoby (u/s Monsieur André), Rachel Spurrell (u/s Madame Giry), Paul Tabone (Ubaldo Piangi), Georgia Ware (Meg Giry) NOTES: Lots of blackouts, safety rail in the way as well as a head at times || A bit of shakiness The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - West End - January, 2006 FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) CAST: Earl Carpenter (The Phantom of the Opera), Rachel Barrell (Christine Daaé), David Shannon (Raoul), Wendy Ferguson (Carlotta Giudicelli), David Lawrence (u/s Monsieur Firmin), Sam Hiller (Monsieur André), Emily Harvey (u/s Madame Giry), Rohan Tickell (Ubaldo Piangi), Heidi Ann O'Brien (Meg Giry) The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - West End - November, 2019 (hitmewithyourbethshot's master) FORMAT:  M2TS (HD) CAST: Josh Piterman (The Phantom of the Opera), Kelly Mathieson (Christine Daaé), Alistair So (u/s Raoul), Britt Lenting (Carlotta Giudicelli), Ross Dawes (Monsieur Firmin), Richard Woodford (Monsieur André), Jacinta Mulcahy (Madame Giry), Simon Whitaker (u/s Ubaldo Piangi), Georgia Ware (Meg Giry) NOTES: MTS file, shot around heads and master tries best to work around them but is unable too. Auction and overtune is blocked alongside most of the whole recording. Theres a few bits here and there where the action is visible such as during think of me, music of the night. Sound is very clear. Anything on the left side of the stage such during "prima dona" is mostly visible-ish. Phantom of the Opera (Ken Hill) - Japan - December, 2013 (Pro-Shot's master) FORMAT:  MP4 (HD) CAST: Peter Straker (The Phantom), Anna Hawkins (Christine Daae), Manaia Glassey-Ohlson (Raoul), Edward Newborn (The Manager (M. Richard)), Chris Green (Mephistopheles), Chris Green (The Persian), Michael McLean (Faust), Helen Moulder (Madame Giry), Lloyd Scott (Debienne), Lloyd Scott (The Groom), Lloyd Scott (The Priest), Lloyd Scott (Mauclair), Lloyd Scott (Gravedigger), Lloyd Scott (The Old Man), Caroline Tatlow (Carlotta), Caroline Tatlow (Dominique), Caroline Tatlow (The Chorus Girl), Camilla Besley (Jammes), Sam Benton (Remy), Brittany Wallis (Lisette), Brittany Wallis (Lady in Box), Cameron Barclay, Patrick Kelly NOTES: TV-rip from BS Japan Channel (Broadcasted on December 31, 2014). Features Japanese subs. Missing Overture of Act 2.

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Carl Hancock Rux

Carl Hancock Rux (born March 24, 1975) is an American poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, actor, director, singer/ songwriter. He is the author of several books including the Village Voice Literary Prize-winning "Pagan Operetta," the novel, Asphalt, and the Obie Award-winning play, Talk. Rux is also a singer/songwriter with four CDs to his credit, as well as a frequent collaborator in the fields of dance, theater, film, and contemporary art . Notable collaborators include Nona Hendryx, Toshi Reagon, Bill T. Jones, Ronald K. Brown, Nick Cave, Anne Bogart, Robert Wilson, Kenny Leon, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jonathan Demme, Stanley Nelson Jr., Carrie Mae Weems, Glenn Ligon and others. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Doris Duke Award for New Works, the Doris Duke Charitable Fund, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Prize, the Bessie Award and the Alpert Award in the Arts, and a 2019 Global Change Maker award by WeMakeChange.Org. . 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.

Early life

Rux was born Carl Stephen Hancock in Harlem, New York. His biological mother, Carol Jean Hancock, suffered from chronic mental illness, was diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, and was institutionalized shortly after the birth of his older brother. Rux was born the result of an illegitimate pregnancy (while his mother was under the care of a New York City psychiatric institution) and the identity of Rux's biological father is unknown. Rux was placed under the guardianship of his maternal grandmother, Geneva Hancock (née Rux), until her death of cirrhosis of the liver due to alcoholism. At four years of age he entered the New York City foster care system where he remained until he was eventually placed under the legal guardianship of his great uncle (grandmother's brother) James Henry Rux and his wife Arsula (née Cottrell) and raised on a step street in the Highbridge section of the Bronx, later used as the filming location for the stairway dance scene in the 2019 film Joker.

Rux attended PS 73, Roberto Clemente Junior High School and received a scholarship to the Horace Mann School, an independent Ivy college preparatory school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx before transferring to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts where he studied visual art. Exposed to jazz music by his legal guardians, including the work of Oscar Brown Jr., John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, Rux eventually double-majored in music/voice, and sang with the Boys Choir of Harlem. He also became a member of the Harlem Writers Workshop, a summer journalism training program for inner-city youth founded by African-American journalists, sponsored by Columbia University and The Xerox Corporation. At the age of 15, Rux was legally adopted by his guardians and his surname changed to Rux. Upon graduation from high school he entered Columbia College where he studied in the Creative Writing Program; took private acting classes at both HB studios; and trained with Gertrude Jeanette's Hadley Players as well as actor Robert Earl Jones (father of actor James Earl Jones). Rux continued his studies at Columbia University, American University of Paris, as well as the University of Ghana at Legon.

Career

Working as a Social Work Trainer while moonlighting as a freelance art and music critic, Rux became a founding member of Hezekiah Walker's Love Fellowship gospel choir and later found himself influenced by the Lower East Side poetry and experimental theater scene, collaborating with poets Miguel Algarin, Bob Holman, Jayne Cortez, Sekou Sundiata, Ntozake Shange; experimental musicians David Murray, Mal Waldron, Butch Morris, Craig Harris, Jeanne Lee, Leroy Jenkins as well as experimental theater artists Laurie Carlos, Robbie McCauley, Ruth Maleczech, Lee Breuer, Reza Abdoh and others.

He is one of several poets (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, most of whom were included in the poetry anthology Aloud, Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, winner of the 1994 American Book Award. 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". Rux is the author of the novel Asphalt and the author of several plays. His first play, Song of Sad Young Men (written in response to his older brother's death from AIDS), was directed by Trazana Beverly and starred actor Isaiah Washington. The play received eleven AUDELCO nominations. His most notable play is the OBIE Award-winning Talk, first produced at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in 2002. Directed by Marion McClinton and starring actor Anthony Mackie, the play won seven OBIE awards.

Rux is also a recording artist, first featured on Reg E. Gaines CD Sweeper Don't Clean My Streets (Polygram). As a musician, his work is known to encompass an eclectic mixture of blues, rock, vintage R&B, classical music, futuristic pop, soul, poetry, folk, psychedelic music and jazz. His debut CD, Cornbread, Cognac & Collard Green Revolution (unreleased) was produced by Nona Hendryx and Mark Batson, featuring musicians Craig Harris, Ronnie Drayton and Lonnie Plaxico. His CD Rux Revue was recorded and produced in Los Angeles by the Dust Brothers, Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf. Rux recorded a follow up album, Apothecary Rx, (selected by French writer Phillippe Robert for his 2008 publication "Great Black Music": an exhaustive tribute of 110 albums including 1954's "Lady Sings The Blues" by Billie Holiday, the work of Jazz artists Oliver Nelson, Max Roach, John Coltrane, rhythm and blues artists Otis Redding, Ike & Tina Turner, Curtis Mayfield, George Clinton; as well as individual impressions of Fela Kuti, Jimi Hendrix, and Mos Def.) His fourth studio CD, Good Bread Alley, was released by Thirsty Ear Records, and his fifth "Homeostasis" (CD Baby) was released in May 2013. Rux has written and performed (or contributed music) to a proportionate number of dance companies including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; Jane Comfort & Co. and Ronald K. Brown's "Evidence" among others.

Literature

Books by author

Elmina Blues (poetry)

Pagan Operetta (poetry/Short Fiction/SemioText)

Asphalt (novel/Simon & Schuster)

Talk (drama/TCG Press)

Literary fiction

Asphalt (novel) (Atria, Simon & Schuster)

The Exalted (novel) forthcoming

Selected plays

Song of Sad Young Men

Talk

Geneva Cottrell, Waiting for the Dog to Die

Smoke, Lilies and Jade

Song of Sad Young Men

Chapter & Verse

Pipe

Pork Dream in the American House of Image

Not the Flesh of Others

Singing In the Womb of Angels

Better Dayz Jones (Harlem Stage)

"Stranger On Earth" (Harlem Stage)

The (No) Black Male Show

Mycenaean

Asphalt (directed by Talvin Wilkes)

Etudes for the Sleep of Other Sleepers (directed by Laurie Carlos)

Steel Hammer (co-written by Will Power, Kia Cothran and Regina Taylor for the SITI company, directed by Anne Bogart).

The Exalted (directed by Anne Bogart)

NPR Presents WATER ± (co-written by Arthur Yorinks, directed by Kenny Leon)

Selected essays

"Eminem: The New White Negro

"Dream Work and the Mimesis of Carrie Mae Weems"

"Belief and the Invisible Playwright"

"In Memoriam: Ruby Dee (1922–2014)"

"Up From The Mississippi Delta"

"Democratic Vistas of Space and Light"

"A Rage In Harlem"

Selected anthologies

Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project University of Texas Press

Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure NYU Press

Heights of the Marvelous NYU Press

Juncture: 25 Very Good Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings Soft Skull Press

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, and More, DeCapo Press

Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, Counterpoint Press

Humana Festival 2014: The Complete Plays, Playscripts, Incorporated

Action: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theatre, Simon & Schuster

Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Three Rivers Press

The African American Male, Writing, and Difference: A Polycentric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History, State University of New York Press

Meditations and Ascensions: Black Writers on Writing, Third World Press

Plays from the Boom Box Galaxy: Theater from the Hip-hop Generation, Theatre Communications Group

Bad Behavior, Random House

Verse: An Introduction to Prosody, John Wiley & Sons Press

Significations of Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of a Black Film, UMI Press

So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival, Akashic Books

Black Men In Their Own Words, Crown Publishers

Bulletproof Diva, Knopf Doubleday

Race Manners: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans, Skyhorse Publishing

In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights, Umbrage Press

Listen Again: a Momentary History of Pop Music, Duke University Press

Journalism

Rux has been published as a contributing writer in numerous journals, catalogs, anthologies, and magazines including Interview magazine, Essence magazine, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, aRude Magazine, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art (founded by fellow art critics Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu and Salah Hassan) and American Theater Magazine.

Libretti

Makandal (music by Yosvaney Terry, stage design and costumes by Edouard Duval Carrie, directed by Lars Jan) Harlem Stage

Blackamoor Angel (music by Deidre Murray; directed by Karin Coonrod) Bard Spiegeltent/Joseph Papp Public Theater

Kingmaker (music by Toshi Reagon) BRIC Arts Media

Perfect Beauty" (music by Tamar Muskal)

Music

Solo albums

Cornbread, Cognac, Collard Green Revolution

Rux Revue Sony/550 Music

Apothecary Rx Giant Step

Good Bread Alley Thirsty Ear

Homeostasis CD Baby

Singles

"Miguel" (Sony) 1999

"Wasted Seed" (Sony) 1999

"Fall Down" (Sony) 1999

"No Black Male Show" (Sony) 1999

"Good Bread Alley" (Thirsty Ear) 2006

"Thadius Star" (Thirsty Ear) 2006

"Living Room" (Thirsty Ear) 2006

"Disrupted Dreams" (Giant Step) 2010

"Eleven More Days" (Giant Step) 2010

"I Got A Name" (Giant Step) 2010

"Living Room" (Kevin Shields Remix) (Mercury) 2013

12-inch singles

"Lamentations (You, Son)" Giant Step Records

EP

Carl Hancock Rux Live at Joe's Pub (forthcoming)

Collaborations

Sweeper Don't Clean My Streets Reg E. Gaines Polygram

Eargasms Vol. 1

70 Years Coming R. L. Burnside Bongload/Acid Blues Records

Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Works, Rhino

Bow Down to the Exit Sign David Holmes Go! Beat

Love Each Other Yukihiro Fukutomi Sony/ Japan

Optometry DJ Spooky Thirsty Ear Recordings

The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Studio Cast Recording)

Inradio 5 Morningwatch 2004

Thirsty Ear Presents: Blue Series Sampler (Thirsty Ear)

Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006 Box Set Shout! Factory (2006)

More Than Posthuman-Rise of the Mojosexual Cotillion Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, TruGROID

The Dogs Are Parading David Holmes Universal

Life Forum Gerald Clayton Concord Jazz

Tributary Tales Gerald Clayton

Tomorrow Comes The Harvest Jeff Mills Tony Allen Decca Records

Humanist Rob Marshall Ignition Records

Songwriter

Mckay Stephanie McKay Universal Music

Contemporary Dance (text & music)

Movin' Spirits Dance Co.

Kick The Boot, Raise the Dust An' Fly; A Recipe for Buckin (chor: Marlies Yearby, co-authors: Sekou Sundiata, Laurie Carlos, music: Craig Harris ) Performance Space 122, Maison des arts de Créteil (France)

Totin' Business & Carryin' Bones (chor. Marlies Yearby), Performance Space 122, Maison des arts de Créteil (France)

The Beautiful (chor: Marlies Yearby, co-author:Laurie Carlos), Judson Church, Tribeca Performing Arts Center

Of Urban Intimacies (chor: Marlies Yearby), Lincoln Center Serious Fun!, Central Park Summerstage, National Tour

That Was Like This/ This Was Like That(chor: Marlies Yearby, music: Grisha Coleman), Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Central Park Summerstage, National Tour

Anita Gonzalez

Yanga, (chor: Anita Gonzalez, music: Cooper-Moore, composer), Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Montclair State College

Jane Comfort & Co.

Asphalt (dir/chor: Jane Comfort; vocal score: Toshi Reagon, music: DJ Spooky, David Pleasant, Foosh, dramaturgy: Morgan Jenness, costumes: Liz Prince, lighting design: David Ferri ), Joyce Theater, National Tour

Urban Bush Women

Soul Deep (chor: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, composer: David Murray), Walker Arts Center, National Tour

Shelter (chor: Jawole Willo Jo Zollar, music: Junior Gabbu Wedderburn) International Tour

Hair Stories (chor: Jawole Willa jo Zollar) BAM Theater/Esplanade Theater (Singapore) Hong Kong Arts Festival

Jubilation! Dance Co.

Sweet In The Morning (chor: Kevin Iega Jeff)

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Shelter (chor: Jawole Willo Jo Zollar, music: Junior Gabbu Wedderburn) City Center, International Tour

Uptown (chor: Matthew Rushing) Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Four Corners (chor: Ronald K. Brown) Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 2014

Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble (Ailey II)

Seeds (chor: Kevin Iega Jeff) Aaron Davis Hall, Apollo Theater, National Tour

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Theater

The Artificial Nigger (chor: Bill T. Jones) Arnie Zane Bill T. Jones Dance Co; music: Daniel Bernard Roumain National Tour

Roberta Garrison Co.

Certo! (chor: Roberta Garrison, music: Mathew Garrison) Scuola di Danza Mimma Testa in Trastevere (Rome, Italy) Teatro de natal infantil Raffaelly Beligni (Naples, Italy)

M'Zawa Dance Co.

Seeking Pyramidic Balance/Flipmode (chor: Maia Claire Garrison) 651 Arts

Robert Moses Kin

Helen (chor: Robert Moses) Yerba Buena Performing Arts Center

Nevabawarldapece (chor: Robert Moses) Yerba Buena Performing Arts Center

Topaz Arts Dance

Dreamfield (chor: Paz Tanjuaquio) Hudson River Park NY

Actor

Theater

Rux studied acting at the Hagen Institute (under Uta Hagen); the Luleå National Theatre School (Luleå, Sweden) and at the National Theater of Ghana (Accra). Rux has appeared in several theater projects, most notably originating 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 and costumes by Geoffrey Holder. The production debuted as part of the Ruhr Triennale 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; Sadler's Wells in London, Great Britain; the Teatro Piccinni in Bari, Italy; the Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao and the Teatro Espanol in Madrid, Spain. The opera made its American premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music / BAM Next Wave Festival in October 2004 and official "world premiere" 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. Combining both his dramatic training and dance movement into his performance, Rux's performance was described by the American press as having "phenomenal charisma and supreme physical expressiveness...(achieving) a near-iconic power, equally evoking El Greco's saints in extremis and images of civil rights protesters besieged by fire hoses." Rux has also appeared in several plays and performance works for theater, as well as in his own work.

Film/Television

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 as well as NPR and co-wrote and performed in the national touring production of NPR Presents Water±, directed by Kenny Leon.

Performance Art Exhibitions/Curator

The Whitney Museum "Beat Culture and the New America, 1950-1965"

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum "Carrie Mae Weems: Live"

Thread Waxing Space "Sacred Music"

The Foundry Theater "Roundtable on Hope"

The Kitchen "Sapphire: Black Wings & Blind Angels"

Harlem Stage "We Da People Cabaret"

The New School "Comrades and Lovers" Glenn Ligon

Mass MoCA "Until" Nick Cave

Kennedy Center/Spoleto Festival "Grace Notes"; Carrie Mae Weems

Grace Farms "Past Tense"; Carrie Mae Weems

Selected Directorial Credits

"Chapter & Verse" by Carl Hancock Rux /Dixon Place; Nuyorican Poets Cafe

"Mycenaean" by Carl Hancock Rux CalArts/BAM Next Wave Festival

"Third Ward" by Tish Benson/Nuyorican Poets Cafe

"Girl Group" by Tish Benson, Latasha Nevada Diggs, Sarah Jones/Aaron Davis Hall

"Stranger On Earth" by Carl Hancock Rux/ Live Arts; Harlem Stage

"Poesia Negra" by Carl Hancock Rux /RedCat; Lincoln Center; Aaron Davis Hall; BAM Next Wave. *"Who 'Dat Who Killed Better Days Jones?" by (Various Artists)/ Aaron Davis Hall

"blu" by Virginia Grise/ New York Theatre Workshop

"Welcome to Wandaland" by Ifa Bayeza/ Rights & Reasons Theater/Brown University

"String Theory" by Ifa Bayeza/ Rights & Reasons Theater, Brown University

"Bunky Johnson Out of The Shadows" by Ifa Bayeza/Shadows on the Teche

Academia

Rux is formally the Head of the MFA Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of Arts and has taught and or been an artist in residence at Brown University, Hollins University, UMass at Amhurst, Duke University, Stanford University, University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Eugene Lang New School for Drama, among others.

He has mentored award-winning writers including recipients of the Yale Drama Prize, Whiting Writers Award, Princess Grace Award, and BBC African Performance Playwriting Award.

Personal life

Rux's great uncle, Rev. Marcellus Carlyle Rux (January 8, 1882 - January 5, 1948) was a graduate of Virginia Union University, and principal of The Keysville Mission Industrial School (later changed to The Bluestone Harmony Academic and Industrial School), a private school founded in 1898 by several African-American Baptist churches in Keysville Virginia at a time when education for African-Americans was scarce to non-existent. For about 50 years the school had the largest enrollment of any black boarding school in the east and sent a large number of graduates on to college. For the first five years, Marcellus Carlyle Rux was a teacher in the institution. Such was the record he made that he was promoted to the principalship in 1917. Under his administration, the school reached its highest enrollment and had its greatest period of prosperity. The post-Civil war school was one of the first of its kind in the nation and was permanently closed in 1950. The school's still existent structure once featured a girl's and boy's dormitory and President's dwelling and is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Marcellus Carlyle Rux is listed in History of the American Negro and his Institutions.

Rux's younger brother is a New York City Public School Teacher and his cousin a New York City middle school principal. Rux's older brother died of AIDS-related complications.

Rux's home, a Victorian Brownstone in the Fort Greene Brooklyn section of New York City, has been photographed by Stefani Georgani and frequently featured in home decor magazines and coffee table books internationally, including Elle Decor UK.

Activism

Rux joined New Yorkers Against Fracking, organized by singer Natalie Merchant, calling for a fracking ban on natural gas drilling using hydraulic fracturing. A concert featuring Rux, Merchant, actors Mark Ruffalo and Melissa Leo and musicians Joan Osborne, Tracy Bonham, Toshi Reagon, Citizen Cope, Meshell Ndegeocello and numerous others was held in Albany, N.Y., and resulted in public protests.

Rux was a co-producer (through a partnership between MAPP International and Harlem Stage) and curator of WeDaPeoples Cabaret, an annual event regarding citizens without borders in a globally interdependent world. A longtime resident and homeowner in Fort Greene Brooklyn, Carl Rux worked with the Fort Greene association and New York philanthropist Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel to erect a cultural medallion at the Carlton Avenue home where novelist Richard Wright lived and penned his seminal work, Native Son. Rux is a member of Take Back the Night, a foundation seeking to end sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual abuse and all other forms of sexual violence.

Honors, awards, and grants

Rux was featured in Interview Magazine's "One To Watch" and New York Times Magazine's "Thirty Under Thirty". His essay Eminem: The New White Negro was selected for Da Capo's Best Music Writing 2004. Rux's radio documentary "Walt Whitman: Songs of Myself" was awarded the New York Press Club Journalism award for Entertainment News.

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Get To Know Me.

Hi! My name is Kevin Ligon I am 15 years old and i love playing video games, playing basketball, eating food, and going out with friends

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Any christian authors you recommend?

These are some books that I have or want to read:

Defining Deception by Costi W.Hinn and Anthony Wood

Judge Not by Todd Friel

Visual Theology by Tim Challies

I am N by The Voice of the Martyrs

Rest for parents by Todd Freil

Knowing Scripture by R.C. Sproul

How to Get the Most from God’s Word by John MacArthur

9 Marks of a Healthy Church by Mark Dever

Sex is not the problem (lust is) by Joshua Harris

Jesus Unmasked by Todd Freil

The Truth of the Cross by R.C. Sproul

Slay the lust Dragon by Todd Friel

The Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul

The Hole in Our Holiness by Kevin DeYoung

Tempted and Tried by Russell Moore

The Conviction to Lead by Al Mohler.

Finally Free by Heath Lambert  

Does Grace Grow Best in Winter? by Ligon Duncan.

The Gospel according to Jesus by John MacArthur

Strange Fire by John MacArthur

Pillars of Grace by Steven J Lawson

Also here is a post I did with a few Christian Resources most of the Godly teachers have written many books.

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anastasiabway: In rehearsal after the first preview. Cast members @mollyisrushing @shinamorris #kevinligon @janetdickinson sit on the train to Paris listening to our fearless leader #DarkoTresnjak #MaxandJB3Takeover #fanastasias #anastasiamusical @maxmclayton @jamesbrowniii

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“Grief and Grievance” [Press Preview] @ The New Museum by j- No Via Flickr: LES Manhattan NYC Feb. 16, 2021 exhibition on show thru June 6, 2021

Opening to coincide with Black History Month, “Grief and Grievance” is an exhibition that focuses on the intersection of white nationalism and the cultural memory of Black grief as central to American life, as articulated in the work of contemporary Black American artists working in nearly every artistic medium.

The show, as conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor, was originally intended to begin prior to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, but due to the current global pandemic, the opening had to be delayed. The project was completed by Naomi Beckwith, Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, and Mark Nash as curatorial advisors.

In Enwezor’s view, the works in this exhibition help illustrate the idea that "mourning is a practice that permeates the social, economic, and emotional realities of Black life in America as it is experienced across multiple generations", from the civil rights movement of the 1960s to issues of police violence in the United States in the 1990s and today. The works of these artists stand as proof that many of the concerns driving the current debates around race, discrimination, and violence in America and that Black grief remains a national emergency that must not be ignored.

The 37 artists included in the show include: Terry Adkins, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kevin Beasley, Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Garrett Bradley, Melvin Edwards, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Charles Gaines, Ellen Gallagher, Theaster Gates, Arthur Jafa, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Rashid Johnson, Jennie C. Jones, Kahlil Joseph, Deana Lawson, Simone Leigh, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Julie Mehretu, Okwui Okpokwasili, Adam Pendleton, Julia Phillips, Howardena Pindell, Cameron Rowland, Lorna Simpson, Sable Elyse Smith, Tyshawn Sorey, Diamond Stingily, Henry Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Nari Ward, Carrie Mae Weems, and Jack Whitten.

Upcoming public programs related to "Grief and Grievance," include a wide range of conversations with artists from the exhibition:

Theaster Gates in conversation with Massimiliano Gioni on February 25;

Melvin Edwards in conversation with Massimiliano Gioni on March 2;

LaToya Ruby Frazier in conversation with Margot Norton on March 12;

Kerry James Marshall in conversation with Massimiliano Gioni on March 18;

Dawoud Bey in conversation with Gary Carrion-Murayari on March 23;

Adam Pendleton in conversation with Andrew An Westover on April 1;

Hank Willis Thomas in conversation with Margot Norton on April 8;

Rashid Johnson in conversation with Massimiliano Gioni on April 15;

Tiona Nekkia McClodden in conversation with Margot Norton on May 3; with more to be announced.

Additionally, on February 24, the Museum will host “Workshop for Educators: Grief and Grievance: Art and Morning in America.” Designed for K-12 educators, this program will highlight and contextualize works in the exhibition with historic and contemporary social movements, and artists’ concerns today.

[photo credits: James Nova for NYTCAP]

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Caleb’s T4G summary. The excellent sermons exhorted us toward holiness:

by portraying a positive vision of the church -- God’s holy community -- and 9 things a pastor can do to promote holiness in the church (namely preach through the Bible, emphasise what we learn about God, emphasise conversion and the life of conversion, teach members to commit to love, more concerned about spiritual than numerical growth, press church discipline vs. hypocrisy, teach what right pastors are and how to find them, pray specifically and confidently about problems, explain how holiness is missional, not competing with it)  (Mark Dever, “Holiness Together”)

by emphasising the distinctly singular message of the Cross in 1 Cor 1 that distinguishes us from the world (it determines eternal destiny, describes true wisdom, and defines Christian ministry) (H B Charles Jr, “The Message of the Cross”)

by describing God’s righteous dissatisfaction with His people’s false worship in Amos, and applying the prophetic word to the particular sin of racism in modern-day America (David Platt, “Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters: Racism, And Our Need For Repentance”)

by critiquing the tendency of MTD-rejectors towards antinomianism and arguing in favor of “grace-driven effort” in the vivification of the soul and mortification of sin (Matt Chandler, ”Citizens In The World But Not Of”)

by showing the holy distinction of God from His Creation through the interconnectedness of His attributes (aseity, eternity, immensity, simplicity) to divine immutability for our warning, welfare and worship (Kevin DeYoung, “The God Who Is Not Like Us: Why We Need The Doctrine Of Divine Immutability”)

by exploring the 1 Cor 5 predicament of a holy, called-out church, which must deal with the sin of the world in its midst through loving church discipline as opposed to relativising it in liberalism, skirting it as in recent Roman Catholicism leadership or monasticism (Albert Mohler, “And Such Were Some Of You”)

by rejecting the false extremes of ignorant antimonians who don’t understand grace and legalistic hypocrites who don’t practice or understand the law to show that the law, a blessed means of grace, helps us be holy in imitating and imaging God (Ligon Duncan, “The Whole In Our Holiness”)

by expositing Jude 17-25′s instructions for what to do when the church is infiltrated by the world -- namely to look out for the unsaved scoffers, look in with edifying love, and look up to God who is able (Thabiti Anyabwile, “Distinctive Living In An Age Of False Teaching”)

by reminding pastors of their responsibility to be passionate for sanctification in their congregations through teaching “Christ formed in you” -- both the indwelling presence of Christ and our union with Him (John MacArthur, “Sanctification and the Pastor’s Passion)

by explaining how a powerful God-wrought conversion is the basis for our desire and love for holiness, and that this new delight and affective capability sets us apart from the world and drive our holiness (John Piper, New God, New Gospel, New Gladness: How Is Christian Joy Distinct”)

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Carl Hancock Rux

Carl Hancock Rux  (born March 24, 1975) is an American poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, actor, director, singer/ songwriter. He is the author of several books including the Village Voice Literary Prize winning collection of poetry, "Pagan Operetta" , the novel Asphalt (novel) and the OBIE award-winning play Talk. Rux's essay "The New White Negro" was selected for Best American Music Writing 2004. Rux is also a singer/songwriter with four CDs to his credit, as well as a frequent collaborator in the fields of dance, theater, film, and contemporary art . Notable collaborators include Nona Hendryx, Toshi Reagon, Bill T. Jones, Ronald K. Brown, Nick Cave, Anne Bogart, Robert Wilson, Kenny Leon, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jonathan Demme, Stanley Nelson Jr., Carrie Mae Weems, Glenn Ligon and others. 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 Doris Duke Awards for New Works, the Doris Duke Charitable Fund, the New York Foundation for the Arts Prize, the Bessie Schonberg (New York Dance and Performance Awards, informally known as the Bessie Awards) and the Alpert Award in the Arts.

Early life

Born Carl Stephen Hancock in Harlem, New York, Rux's biological mother (Carol Jean Hancock) suffered from chronic mental illness, diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic and institutionalized shortly after the birth of his older brother. Born the result of an illegitimate pregnancy while his mother was under the care of a New York City operated psychiatric institution, the identity of Rux's biological father is unknown. Rux was placed under the guardianship of his maternal grandmother, Geneva Hancock (née Rux), until her death of cirrhosis of the liver due to alcoholism. At four years of age he entered the New York City foster care system where he remained until he was eventually placed under the legal guardianship of his great uncle (grandmother's brother) James Henry Rux and his wife Arsula (née Cottrell) and raised in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. Rux attended PS 73, Roberto Clemente Junior High School and received a scholarship to the Horace Mann School, an independent Ivy college preparatory school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx before transferring to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts where he studied visual art. Exposed to jazz music by his legal guardians, including the work of Oscar Brown Jr., John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, Rux eventually double majored in music/voice, as well as sang with the Boys Choir of Harlem. He also became a member of the Harlem Writers Workshop, a summer journalism training program for inner city youth founded by African-American journalists, sponsored by Columbia University and The Xerox Corporation. At the age of 15, Rux was legally adopted by his guardians and his surname changed to Rux. Upon graduation from high school he entered Columbia College where he studied in the Creative Writing Program; took private acting classes at both HB studios, Gertrude Jeanette's Hadley Players as well as privately with actor Robert Earl Jones (father of actor James Earl Jones). Rux continued his studies at Columbia University, American University of Paris as well as the University of Ghana at Legon.

Career

Working as a Social Work Trainer while moonlighting as a writer of film and music criticism, Rux became a founding member of Hezekiah Walker's Love Fellowship gospel choir and later found himself influenced by the Lower East Side poetry and experimental theater scene, collaborating with poets Miguel Algarin, Bob Holman, Jayne Cortez, Sekou Sundiata, Ntozake Shange; experimental musicians David Murray, Mal Waldron, Butch Morris, Craig Harris, Jeanne Lee, Leroy Jenkins as well as experimental theater artists Laurie Carlos, Robbie McCauley, Ruth Maleczech, Lee Breuer, Reza Abdoh and others. He is one of several poets (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, most of whom were included in the poetry anthology Aloud, Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, winner of the 1994 American Book Award. 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". Rux is the author of the novel Asphalt and the author of several plays. His first play, Song of Sad Young Men (written in response to his older brother's death from AIDS), was directed by Trazana Beverly and starred actor Isaiah Washington. The play received eleven AUDELCO nominations. His most notable play is the OBIE Award-winning Talk, first produced at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in 2002. Directed by Marion McClinton and starring actor Anthony Mackie, the play won seven OBIE awards. Rux is also a recording artist, first featured on Reg E. Gaines CD Sweeper Don't Clean My Streets (Polygram). As a musician, his work is known to encompass an eclectic mixture of blues, rock, vintage R&B, classical music, futuristic pop, soul, poetry, folk, psychedelic music and jazz. His debut CD, Cornbread, Cognac & Collard Green Revolution (unreleased) was produced by Nona Hendryx and Mark Batson, featuring musicians Craig Harris, Ronnie Drayton and Lonnie Plaxico. His CD Rux Revue was recorded and produced in Los Angeles by the Dust Brothers, Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf. Rux recorded a follow up album, Apothecary Rx, (selected by French writer Phillippe Robert for his 2008 publication "Great Black Music": an exhaustive tribute of 110 albums including 1954's "Lady Sings The Blues" by Billie Holiday, the work of Jazz artists Oliver Nelson, Max Roach, John Coltrane, rhythm and blues artists Otis Redding, Ike & Tina Turner, Curtis Mayfield, George Clinton; as well as individual impressions of Fela Kuti, Jimi Hendrix, and Mos Def.) His fourth studio CD, Good Bread Alley, was released by Thirsty Ear Records, and his fifth "Homeostasis" (CD Baby) was released in May 2013. Rux has written and performed (or contributed music) to a proportionate number of dance companies including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; Jane Comfort & Co. and Ronald K. Brown's "Evidence" among others.

Literature

Books by author

Elmina Blues (poetry) 1995

Pagan Operetta (poetry/Short Fiction/SemioText) 1998

Asphalt (novel/Simon & Schuster) 2004

Talk (drama/TCG Press) 2002

Literary fiction

Asphalt (novel) (Atria, Simon & Schuster) 2004

The Exalted (novel) forthcoming

Selected plays

Song of Sad Young Men

Talk

Geneva Cottrell, Waiting for the Dog to Die

Smoke, Lilies and Jade

Song of Sad Young Men

Chapter & Verse

Pipe

Pork Dream in the American House of Image

Not the Flesh of Others

Singing In the Womb of Angels

Better Dayz Jones (Harlem Stage)

"Stranger On Earth" (Harlem Stage)

The (No) Black Male Show

Mycenaean

Asphalt (directed by Talvin Wilkes)

Etudes for the Sleep of Other Sleepers (directed by Laurie Carlos)

Steel Hammer (co-written by Will Power, Kia Corthran and Regina Taylor for the SITI company, directed by Anne Bogart).

The Exalted (directed by Anne Bogart)

NPR Presents WATER ± (co-written by Arthur Yorinks, directed by Kenny Leon)

Selected essays

"Eminem: The New White Negro"

"Dream Work and the Mimesis of Carrie Mae Weems"

"Belief and the Invisible Playwright"

"In Memoriam: Ruby Dee (1922–2014)"

"Up From The Mississippi Delta"

"Democratic Vistas of Space and Light"

"A Rage In Harlem"

Selected anthologies

Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project University of Texas Press

Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure NYU Press

Heights of the Marvelous NYU Press

Juncture: 25 Very Good Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings Soft Skull Press

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, and More, DeCapo Press

Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, Counterpoint Press

Humana Festival 2014: The Complete Plays, Playscripts, Incorporated

Action: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theatre, Simon & Schuster

Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Three Rivers Press

The African American Male, Writing, and Difference: A Polycentric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History, State University of New York Press

Meditations and Ascensions: Black Writers on Writing, Third World Press

Plays from the Boom Box Galaxy: Theater from the Hip-hop Generation, Theatre Communications Group

Bad Behavior, Random House

Verse: An Introduction to Prosody , John Wiley & Sons Press

Significations of Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of a Black Film, UMI Press

So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival, Akashic Books

Black Men In Their Own Words, Crown Publishers

Bulletproof Diva, Knopf Doubleday

Race Manners: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans, Skyhorse Publishing

In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights, Umbrage Press

Listen Again: a Momentary History of Pop Music, Duke University Press

Journalism

Rux has been published as a contributing writer in numerous journals, catalogues, anthologies, and magazines including Interview magazine, Essence magazine, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, aRude Magazine, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art (founded by fellow art critics Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu and Salah Hassan) and American Theater Magazine.

Libretti

Makandal (music by Yosvaney Terry, stage design and costumes by Edouard Duval Carrie, directed by Lars Jan) Harlem Stage

Blackamoor Angel (music by Deidre Murray; directed by Karin Coonrod) Bard Spiegeltent/Joseph Papp Public Theater

Kingmaker (music by Toshi Reagon) BRIC Arts Media

Perfect Beauty" (music by Tamar Muskal)

Music

Solo albums

Cornbread, Cognac, Collard Green Revolution (unreleased/1997)

Rux Revue Sony/550 Music (1999)

Apothecary Rx Giant Step (2004)

Good Bread Alley Thirsty Ear (2006)

Homeostasis CD Baby (2013)

Singles

"Miguel" (Sony) 1999

"Wasted Seed" (Sony) 1999

"Fall Down" (Sony) 1999

"No Black Male Show" (Sony) 1999

"Good Bread Alley" (Thirsty Ear) 2006

"Thadius Star" (Thirsty Ear) 2006

"Living Room" (Thirsty Ear) 2006

"Disrupted Dreams" (Giant Step) 2010

"Eleven More Days" (Giant Step) 2010

"I Got A Name" (Giant Step) 2010

"Living Room" (Kevin Shields Remix) (Mercury) 2013

12-inch singles

"Lamentations (You, Son)" Giant Step Records 2001

Collaborations

Sweeper Don't Clean My Streets Reg E. Gaines Polygram (1995)

Eargasms Vol. 1 (1996)

70 Years Coming R. L. Burnside Bongload/Acid Blues Records (1998)

Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Works, Rhino (2000)

Bow Down to the Exit Sign David Holmes Go! Beat (2000)

Love Each Other Yukihiro Fukutomi Sony/ Japan (2001)

Optometry DJ Spooky Thirsty Ear Recordings (2002)

The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Studio Cast Recording) (2004)

Inradio 5 Morningwatch 2004

Thirsty Ear Presents: Blue Series Sampler (Thirsty Ear) 2006

Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006 Box Set Shout! Factory (2006)

More Than Posthuman-Rise of the Mojosexual Cotillion Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, TruGROID (2006)

The Dogs Are Parading David Holmes Universal (2010)

Life Forum Gerald Clayton Concord Jazz (2013)

Tributary Tales Gerald Clayton 2017

Songwriter

Mckay Stephanie McKay Universal Music 2003

Contemporary Dance (text & music)

Movin' Sprits Dance Co.

Kick The Boot, Raise the Dust An' Fly; A Recipe for Buckin (chor: Marlies Yearby, co-authors: Sekou Sundiata, Laurie Carlos, music: Craig Harris ) Performance Space 122, Maison des arts de Créteil (France)

Totin' Business & Carryin' Bones (chor. Marlies Yearby), Performance Space 122, Maison des arts de Créteil (France)

The Beautiful (chor: Marlies Yearby, co-author:Laurie Carlos), Judson Church, Tribeca Performing Arts Center

Of Urban Intimacies (chor: Marlies Yearby), Lincoln Center Serious Fun!, Central Park Summerstage, National Tour

That Was Like This/ This Was Like That(chor: Marlies Yearby, music: Grisha Coleman), Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Central Park Summerstage, National Tour

Anita Gonzalez

Yanga, (chor: Anita Gonzalez, music: Cooper-Moore, composer), Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Montclair State College

Jane Comfort & Co.

Asphalt (dir/chor:Jane Comfort; vocal score: Toshi Reagon, music: DJ Spooky, David Pleasant, Foosh, dramaturgy:Morgan Jenness, costumes: Liz Prince, lighting design: David Ferri ), Joyce Theater, National Tour

Urban Bush Women

Soul Deep (chor: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, composer: David Murray), Walker Arts Center, National Tour

Shelter (chor: Jawole Willo Jo Zollar, music: Junior Gabbu Wedderburn) International Tour

Hair Stories (chor: Jawole Willa jo Zollar) BAM Theater/Esplanade Theater (Singapore) Hong Kong Arts Festival

Jubilation! Dance Co.

Sweet In The Morning (chor: Kevin Iega Jeff)

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Shelter (chor: Jawole Willo Jo Zollar, music: Junior Gabbu Wedderburn) City Center, International Tour

Uptown (chor: Matthew Rushing) Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Four Corners (chor: Ronald K. Brown) Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 2014

Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble (Ailey II)

Seeds (chor: Kevin Iega Jeff) Aaron Davis Hall, Apollo Theater, National Tour

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Theater

The Artificial Nigger (chor: Bill T. Jones) Arnie Zane Bill T. Jones Dance Co; music: Daniel Bernard Roumain National Tour

Roberta Garrison Co.

Certo! (chor: Roberta Garrison, music: Mathew Garrison) Scuola di Danza Mimma Testa in Trastevere (Rome, Italy) Teatro de natal infantil Raffaelly Beligni (Naples, Italy)

M'Zawa Dance Co.

Seeking Pyramidic Balance/Flipmode (chor: Maia Claire Garrison) 651 Arts

Robert Moses Kin

Helen (chor: Robert Moses) Yerba Buena Performing Arts Center

Nevabawarldapece (chor: Robert Moses) Yerba Buena Performing Arts Center

Topaz Arts Dance

Dreamfield (chor: Paz Tanjuaquio) Hudson River Park NY

Actor

Theater

Rux studied acting at the Hagen Institute (under Uta Hagen); the Luleå National Theatre School (Luleå, Sweden) and at the National Theater of Ghana (Accra). Rux has appeared in several theater projects, most notably originating 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 and costumes by Geoffrey Holder. The production debuted 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; Sadler's Wells in London, Great Britain; the Teatro Piccinni in Bari, Italy; the Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao and the Teatro Espanol in Madrid, Spain. The opera made its American premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music / BAM Next Wave Festival in October 2004 and official "world premiere" 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. Combining both his dramatic training and dance movement into his performance, Rux's performance was described as having "phenomenal charisma and supreme physical expressiveness" and achieving "a near-iconic power, equally evoking El Greco's saints in extremis and images of civil rights protesters besieged by fire hoses." Rux has also appeared in several plays and performance works for theater, as well as in his own work.

Film/Television

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 as well as NPR and co-wrote and performed in the national touring production of NPR Presents Water±, directed by Kenny Leon.

Curator/performance & art exhibitions

The Whitney Museum "Beat Culture and the New America, 1950-1965"

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum "Carrie Mae Weems: Live"

Thread Waxing Space "Sacred Music"

The Foundry Theater "Roundtable on Hope"

The Kitchen "Sapphire: Black Wings & Blind Angels"

Harlem Stage "We Da People Cabaret"

The New School "Glenn Ligon " Comrades and Lovers"

Mass MoCA "Nick Cave: Until"

Academia

Rux has mentored thousands of award-winning writers including recipients of the Yale Drama Prize, Whiting Writers Award, Princess Grace Award, and BBC African Performance Playwriting Award. Rux is formally the Head of the MFA Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of Arts and has taught and or been an artist in residence at Brown University, Hollins University, UMass at Amhurst, Duke University, Stanford University, University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Eugene Lang New School for Drama, among others.

Personal life

Rux's great uncle, Rev. Marcellus Carlyle Rux (January 8, 1882 - January 5, 1948) was a graduate of Virginia Union University, and principal of The Keysville Mission Industrial School (later changed to The Bluestone Harmony Academic and Industrial School), a private school founded in 1898 by several African-American Baptist churches in Keysville Virginia at a time when education for African-Americans was scarce to non-existent. For about 50 years the school had the largest enrollment of any black boarding school in the east and sent a large number of graduates on to college. For the first five years, Marcellus Carlyle Rux was a teacher in the institution. Such was the record he made that he was promoted to the principalship in 1917. Under his administration, the school reached its highest enrollment and had its greatest period of prosperity. The post-Civil war school was one of the first of its kind in the nation and was permanently closed in 1950. The school's still existent structure once featured a girl's and boy's dormitory and President's dwelling and is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Marcellus Carlyle Rux is listed in History of the American Negro and his Institutions.

Rux's younger brother is a New York City Public School Teacher and his cousin a New York City middle school principal. Rux's older brother died of AIDS-related complications.

Rux was briefly engaged to marry a childhood sweetheart, and later, dated singer/songwriter Morley while both artists were signed to Sony Music. He has also been associated with television actress Deborah Joy Winans and aspiring actress, E'Dena Hines, the adopted step-granddaughter of Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman, who was brutally murdered by her ex-boyfriend, in Manhattan in the summer of 2015 In 2011 Rux married his longtime partner in a private ceremony in the Tribeca loft of a close friend.

Rux's home, a Victorian Brownstone in the Fort Greene Brooklyn section of New York City, has been photographed by Stefani Georgani and frequently featured in home decor magazines and coffee table books internationally, including Elle Decor UK.

Activism

Rux joined New Yorkers Against Fracking, organized by singer Natalie Merchant, calling for a fracking ban on natural gas drilling using hydraulic fracturing. A concert featuring Rux, Merchant, actors Mark Ruffalo and Melissa Leo and musicians Joan Osborne, Tracy Bonham, Toshi Reagon, Citizen Cope, Meshell Ndegeocello and numerous others was held in Albany and resulted in public protests. Subsequently, New York Governor Mario Cuomo banned hydraulic fracking. New York follows Vermont as the only other U.S. state to ban fracking, joining such economic superpowers as France and Bulgaria. Rux was a co-producer ( through a partnership between MAPP International and Harlem Stage) and curator of WeDaPeoples Cabaret, an annual event regarding citizens without borders in a globally interdependent world. A longtime resident and homeowner in Fort Greene Brooklyn, Carl Rux worked with the Fort Greene association and New York philanthropist Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel to erect a cultural medallion at the Carlton Avenue home where novelist Richard Wright lived and penned his seminal work, Native Son. Rux is a member of Take Back the Night, a foundation seeking to end sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual abuse and all other forms of sexual violence.

Awards/grants/honors

Alpert Award in the Arts

OBIE Award

Bessie Schönburg Award

New York Foundation for the Arts Prize

CINE Golden Eagle Award (television documentary)

MNSWA Urban Griot Award (poetry)

Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) 10 Arts & Artists in Progress Award

New York Press Club Journalism Award for Entertainment News

Brooklyn Borough Hall City Council Black-American Achievement Award

Kitchen Theater Artist Award

Fresh Poet Prize

African Diasporic Artist in Residence (Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami)

National Endowment for the Arts Playwright in Residence Fellow

New York Foundation for the Arts Gregory Millard Fellow

Rockefeller Map Grant

Rockefeller Multi-Arts Production Fund

Creative Capital Fund

Creative Capital Multi-Arts Production Fund

Creative Capital Artists Initiative Grant

Doris Duke Awards for New Works

Doris Duke Charitable Fund

National Endowment for the Arts Grant

New York State Council on the Arts Grant

Mary Flagler Cary Foundation

Time Out Top 10 Plays Citation (Theater)

DeCapo’s Best Music Writing (Essay)

New York Times "Thirty Artists under Thirty (Most Likely to Influence Culture)"

New York Times Best Alternative Music

Vibe Magazine "Ones to Watch"

Village Voice Literary Prize

Interview Magazine Artists Award

Hermitage Artist Fellow

United States Artist Fellowship (shortlist)

Isadora Duncan Award/Outstanding Text and Dance (nominated)

Yale University Hayden Artist in Residence

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