“Artists like rap storyteller Jack Dean make us excited about what they might do next” - The Guardian
Jack Dean CV
Skills
Copywriting & blogging, poetry, spoken word / theatre performance, music composition and production.
Profile
Jack Dean is a Southwest and Yorkshire- based writer and performer who has carried his love of wierd and wonderful arrangements of words to many places, From the Bowery Poetry Club in New York, Latitude Festival and the Radio 4 National Poetry Slam to a male beauty contest in Hackney (long story). Jack likes to take the hip hop medium he grew up with, go out with it, get it drunk and push it down the high street in a shopping trolley full of fireworks at 4am. He hopes you’ll join him on this quixotic adventure.
Education
2008 to 2011 | Creative Writing & Drama Studies Bath Spa University | BA Hons (2:1) |
2011 to 2012 | Arts Administration Goldsmiths College, University of London | MA (Distinction) |
Personal Details
Email: jackdean1989@gmail.com Website: www.jackdean.co.uk @mcjackdean
Employment
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| September 2008 to Present | Freelance Artist Work includes: Debut poetry collection Poems For Grown Up Children published by Burning Eye Books in 2013. Editor and writer of introduction for Sabotage Award-nominated Rhyming Thunder, published on Burning Eye Books in 2012. Poems published and distributed as part of Bath Literature Festival 2011 and in Bath Spa & Columbia University Anthology 2011 Performances at Latitude Festival, Green Man Festival, the Bowery Poetry Club in New York, Bristol Old Vic, the Radio 4 National Poetry Slam. Producer of National Team Poetry Slam and coproducer of the Spokes Amaze poetry night and poetry gameshow Babble with Apples and Snakes. Theatre Wrote, directed, performed and produced: Under Stokes Croft (2012): Live graphic novel with illustration by Hannah Jane Copestake. Toured to thirteen venues nationwide. Rain (2013): Spoken word show, toured as part of Apples And Snakes’ Public Address 2 tour. Threnody For The Sky Children (2014): Full-length theatre show touring from Summer 2014. All three shows developed with support from Bristol Ferment.
Education Work Visiting lecturer at Bath Spa University’s Creative Writing and Drama departments Recorded Work Three solo studio albums and three EPs! Collaboration EP with producer Future Wife.! "More Than Poetry" Promotional video for Apples and Snakes, available from vimeo.com/77703122! A Lit Geek’s History of Hip Hop: podcast as part of Apples and Snakes’ Home Cooking series for Basic FM. Awards Apples and Snakes Poet of the Month October 2013 |
References
Available on request.
