Carl Hancock Rux is an American poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, recording artist, actor, theater director, radio journalist, a frequent collaborator in the fields of film, modern dance, and contemporary art; and senior-level arts administrator, and educator. He is also a frequent collaborating artist, appearing on the title track of Gerald Clayton’s album “Life Forum”[1] (Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Album) as well as many other jazz and experimental music projects. His own music has been released internationally on several labels including Sony/550, Thirsty Ear, and Giant Step. Rux is the author of several books including the Village Voice Literary Prize-winning collection of poetry, Pagan Operetta, the novel, Asphalt, and the Obie Award-winning play, Talk. The NY Times identified Rux as “a breathlessly inventive multimedia artist” focused on “art, race, memory, and power.” Mr. Rux is also co-Artistic Director and Board member of Mabou Mines, a New York City-based experimental mixed media art and social service company founded in 1970 by David Warrilow, Lee Breuer, Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne Akalaitis, and Philip Glass; Board member of 122LCC; Associate Artistic Director/Curator in Residence of Harlem Stage, The Gate House; and Multidisciplinary Editor at The Massachusetts Review, a literary quarterly founded in 1959 by a group of professors from Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as the recipient of a 2021 Whiting Award Literary Magazine Prize from the Whiting Foundation, for its attentive and daring editorship in a time when the literary arts have been overshadowed by political and social strife. Mr. Rux 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, the Alpert Award in the Arts, and a 2019 Global Change Maker award by WeMakeChange.Org. Mr. Rux’s 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, where he is the former Head of the MFA Writing for Performance Department and currently serves as a faculty member.The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals.

The Segal Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is produced by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center under the Graduate Centre at the City Univerity of New York (CUNY), Executive Director Frank Hentschker

Co- Curated by Frank Hentschker, Andie Lerner, and Tanvi Shah.

Festival Coordination by Bukola John Omokore

Web Design by Gaurav Singh Nijjer

Digital Marketing by Cactus Juice

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