Making Hip Hop Theatre

Katie Beswick is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK. She has written widely on theatre, art and performance including the book Social Housing in Performance: The English Council Estate on and off Stage (Methuen Drama 2019); the student edition of Kae Tempest's Wasted (Methuen Drama 2020) and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on subjects including hip hop, street performance and performer training. She writes regularly for the music magazine Loud and Quiet and has interviewed and written features on hip hop artists and performers from countries including the UK, USA, Iceland and Norway. www.katiebeswick.com @DrKBeswick Conrad Murray is an artist, performer, beatboxer and rapper from Mitcham, South-West London. He is a qualified and experienced secondary school teacher, the artistic director of the BAC Beatbox Academy, co-artistic director of the hip hop theatre company Beats & Elements and associate artist at the Battersea Arts Centre and Gulbenkian. His shows include No Milk for the Foxes (Camden People's Theatre 2015); Frankenstein (BAC 2018); High Rise eState of Mind (BAC/CPT 2019). He was musical director and composer on Crongton Knights (Pilot Theatre 2020), and is director on Pied Piper: Silent City (BAC) and composer and director for The Last Man (BAC). He was awarded the Off Westend and Total Theatre Awards for Frankenstein. http://conradmurray.org @rodIUMrecords