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| Short and sweet bio Claudia Alick is a playwright, poet, performance artist, and producer. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Smokin’ Word, a company dedicated to nurturing and developing the art of spoken word and hip-hop artists, producing theatre, books and CD’s. She is the author of the chap-book “The Haiku Scam”, and many plays that have been seen on the stages of The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, The Culture Project, Chashama Experimental Theatre, New Perspectives Theatre, and PS 122 in the 2002 and 2003 NYC Hip Hop Theatre Festivals. She has won poetry slams at such venues as Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Hottest Poets, Urbana Slam at The Bowery Poetry Bar, and A Little Bit Louder at Bar 13 where she qualified as a finalist for their national slam team. Other performance credits include HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and the film “TerrorMarketers”. Claudia teaches a poetry class at Rikers Island and her next play will be produced in The DownTown Urban Theatre Festival. To find out more visit www.claudiaalick.itgo.com and www.smokinword.com. longer version-not updated- Claudia Alick came to New York from Washington D.C. and before that Missoula, MT. She is a playwright, performance artist and spoken word artist. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Smokin' Word a Theatre/Publishing Company of hip-hop poetic products. Smokin' Word recently released her chap book "The Haiku Scam" which can be purchased online. She has won poetry slams at such venues as Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Hottest Poets, and Urbana Slam at The Bowery Poetry Bar where she qualified as a finalist for their national slam team. Her latest performance art/surreaslist poetry project STREET-POETRY can be sampled at www.hotmud.net. StreetPoetry has been commissioned and/or performed with The Drilling Company, several Poets for Peace Sept 11th Benefits and other venues around New York. Here in New York her ten minute educational play Living with it was a commissioned piece at Brookdale Hospital Think Twice Program's World AIDS Day event. Her ten-minute hip-hop play What?! was produced at The Culture Project as part of The 24 Hour Plays. In Washington, D.C. Her one act play "Divining" received a reading at The Kennedy Center as part of Woolly Mammoths Fore Play Series. Divining is also a finalist in the Maxim Mazumdar playwriting competition. Her ten-minute hip-hop/camp play Boxing Ennui received a staged reading and a full production from Cherry Red Productions and debuting here in New York in the Chashama Festival in June of 2002. Breakdown a short hip-hop play was produced in The Hip-Hop Theatre Festival and Sick Rhymes a short hip-hop play was featured in "Blast Off Nite", an agent showcase event, that month as well. While living in Washington D.C. in 1999 her full length play Tap-Dancing Ambivalence was work-shopped with Playground and was part of the Size Matters Marathon Reading at Woolly Mammoth Theatre as part of the Foreplay Reading Series. Her ten-minute play Triple Threat was written for students in the Shakespeare Theatre's Southeast Project. It was performed in the SouthEast Projects Theatre Space. In 1998 Imaging Bodies: The Gaze a one-act multi-media performance art piece was performed in the black box space at The George Washington University as her senior thesis. Claudia graduated in '98 with a BA in Theatre from The George Washington University. In 1998 she founded and supervised a University run student arts organization, The Creative and Performing Arts Community (CPAC), where she directed and produced plays, coordinating open mic events, published a poetry 'zine, and directed and performed in a great deal of performance art. In 1999 she worked as a mentor with The SouthEast Projects playwriting program. In 2000 she participated in a playwriting workshop at Arena Stage with Molly Smith. She also taught a playwriting class at Bell-Multicultural High-school through Arena Stage's Expedition Theatre outreach program. She is a member in excellent standing of PlayGround, Woolly Mammoth's Playwrights Unit and Barbara Goldman's weekly writing workshop.
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