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about malik work:Malik is an accomplished actor and theater artist. He’s been featured in recurring roles on network television, acted in and voiced national commercials, and led several films as an actor; films both independent and with worldwide distribution. He’s helped write and produce a wealth of projects, but none more transformative than his groundbreaking hip hop theater one-man show, Verses At Work. ‘Verses’ was also adapted into a screenplay and made into a film that won the International Spotlight Award at the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival in 2016. For his work in the theater version of the show, Malik was nominated for Best Solo Performance alongside solo-performance greats Anna DeVeare Smith and Sarah Jones in 2017 at the AUDELCO Awards. Verses @ Work recently toured with the Public Theater's famed Mobile Unit in the summer of 2021. The Mobile Unit is known for it's Shakespeare productions, and Malik was concurrently featured in scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream, King John, and The Winter's Tale in their interactive show called Shakespeare- Call & Response. Most recently, Malik was commissioned by the Folger Shakespeare Library to pen a play at the intersection of Hip Hop, Shakespeare, cultural memory, and the criminal justice system. The play was received with rave reviews, and is challenging the way audiences perceive the phenomenon of Hip Hop culture, and the tradition of Shakespeare's theater. Years ago Malik brought a one-man adapted version of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens to the American Theater for Actors, Off Broadway, with his favorite theater collaborator Tim Lee. In between projects he also teaches acting, Shakespeare and hip hop theater at The National Theater Institute, at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT.
Malik Work is also an accomplished writer and emcee, known as one of New York City's lyrical giants. He built his following co-founding the seminal live hip-hop crew, The Real Live Show, with a decade of residencies and performances at venues all over the U.S. and Europe. The group’s sophisticated musicianship— and the literate rhymes of Malik, a.k.a. Dionysos, and his co-MC, Stimulus—garnered The Real Live Show critical acclaim. The Village Voice enthused: “If ever a group lived up to their name, it's The Real Live Show. With a distinguished palette of players backing them, New York City purebred MCs Stimulus and Dionysos paint a pitch-perfect portrait of hip- hop's spirit.” The Real Live Show also has the distinction of being the first hip-hop band ever to play the Greenwich Village’s esteemed Blue Note Club. They’re known for pioneering the movement that brought together jazz and hip hop communities for live sessions that transformed the culture of both. Work’s learned flow stems from his deep appreciation for all written masterworks, and his firm belief that hip-hop lyrics fit into a literary continuum. Currently he teaches acting workshops, hip hop workshops, as well as a hip hop theater workshop called "Rap and Spoken Word as Performed Literature." This intensive connects the work of classic writers like William Shakespeare with the lyrics of contemporary hip-hop artists like Biggie Smalls. These seemingly disparate threads of hip-hop, classic literature, and theater, tie in with Work’s well-rounded artistry. Malik is the voice of an immersive museum of the English language in Washington DC. The museum is billed as the world's first voice-activated museum. Malik has written plays, performed around the world as both a musical artist and a theater artist, performed award winning voice-over for commercial products, composed and performed for arts and cultural organizations from the National Dance Institute and Historic Hudson Valley, to Preservation Long Island and Queens County Farm Museum. Most importantly, Malik has endeavored to teach and inspire others, in the classroom, lecture hall, on the stage, screen, web and beyond. |
MALIK WORK ~ ACTING AND VOICEOVER CREDITS
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HEIGHT: 6'0"
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