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Bryonn Bain is an American poet, actor, prison activist, scholar, author, hip hop artist and professor of African American Studies and World Arts & Cultures in the School of the Arts and the School of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles.[1]
His one-man show, Lyrics From Lockdown, won "Best Solo Performance" from the LA Weekly[2] and NAACP.[3] Executive produced by Harry Belafonte,[4] the show tells stories of wrongful incarceration through spoken word poetry, hip hop theater, calypso, comedy and classical music. Bain founded the Prison Education Program at UCLA in 2015. In 2019, the program and his performances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts were featured on the debut episode of LA Stories which won an Emmy Award.[5] Bain hosted My Two Cents, a current affairs talk show on BET for five consecutive seasons,[6] and starred in Pig Hunt, the last film directed by Academy Award winner James Isaac.[7] A Tony nominated theater maker, Bain was a producer of the Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange's classic "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf.” [8]
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- ^ Wild, Stephi. "Stage Raw Announces Its 2017-2018 Theater Award Recipients". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
- ^ Clement, Olivia (June 13, 2019). "Lillias White, Viola Davis, Condola Rashad, and More Among NAACP Theatre Award Recipients". Playbill. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
- ^ Gates, Anita (2013-02-14). "Correctional Association, Now a Producer of a Lament Against the Police". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
- ^ "Bain is Helping Incarcerated People Find Redemption Through Creativity". Spectrum News. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
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- ^ Harvey, Dennis (2009-04-03). "Pig Hunt". Variety. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
- ^ Sherman, Rachel (2022-05-09). "Full List of the 2022 Tony Award Nominees". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-07-30.