Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Marc Bamuthi Joseph (born 1975) is a spoken-word poet, dancer, and playwright who frequently directs stand alone hip-hop theater plays. His works include Word Becomes Flesh, De/Cipher and No Man's Land. He collaborated with Rennie Harris in 2007 to create Scourge, a play about Haiti's social-economical struggles. Joseph directed the play while Harris served as the choreographer. In 2008 he created the break/s, a play based on the book Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang.

As a young man Joseph worked with the Senegalese National Ballet. He went on to work with Katherine Dunham, Joe Hahn, Mos Def, and Bonnie Raitt. Joseph was a National Poetry Slam champion in 1999, and a 2006 recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. His work was featured in episodes of Russell Simmons' Def Poetry on HBO in 2004 and 2005. In the Fall of 2007 he appeared on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine. Two of his works have been featured at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, Chicago, Sudan in 2011, and the break/s in 2007.

He is currently the Chief of Program and Pedagogy at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

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