Will Power (performer)

Will Power is an award-winning American actor, rapper, playwright, and educator.

Power has been a featured performer on Last Call with Carson Daly and Russell Simmons’s Def Poetry Jam on HBO. He also starred in the 1998 film Drylongso, a hit at Sundance, as well as being featured in the documentary All Fathers are Sons.

A pioneer in the genre of hip hop theatre, Power has created a unique fusion of original music, rhymed dialogue, and choreography. His adaptation of the Greek tragedy Seven against Thebes, entitled The Seven, recently completed a successful Off-Broadway run at the New York Theatre Workshop.

In January of 2010 McCarter Theatre Center premiered Fetch Clay, Make Man. The play focuses on the relationship between Muhammad Ali, the famous boxer, and Stepin Fetchit, an African-American actor, on the eve of Ali’s 1965 defense of his heavyweight championship against Sonny Liston.

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