RICKERBY HINDS | Director

Rickerby Hinds is one of the most influential individuals to come into the theater world in a generation. He received an MFA in playwriting from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television where he was twice awarded the Audrey Skirball-Kenis (ASK) Award for best play. Currently an Associate Professor of Playwriting in the Department of Theatre at the University of California, Riverside and the creator and director of the Califest Hip Hop Theatre Festival, now in its 7th year, Hinds has also taught at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Redlands. Among the entities that have supported his works in the form of commissions, grants, and fellowships are: the Ford Foundation, the Showtime Television Network, the GeVa Theatre in New York, the Mark Taper Forum, the Cornerstone Theatre, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The New LATC (Los Angeles Theater Center). Institutions such as Stanford University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the University of Houston, Howard University and the University of Aarhus, Denmark are just some of the entities that have hosted Hinds' work.