IN-Q

Los Angeles based writer, rapper, actor, host, teacher, and award winning spoken word artist, IN-Q, is a unique voice in performance art. His work has been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, The Battle for LA, BET, ABC, NBC, A&E, Disney, and Nickelodeon.
IN-Q is a National Poetry Slam Champion who has shared the stage with everyone from De La Soul, to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, to President Barack Obama. IN-Q currently has a publishing deal with RMR Music Group and has collaborated with various artists including Rock Mafia, Sick Puppies, Aloe Blacc, Miley Cyrus, and Selena Gomez on her hit single, Love You Like A Love Song, which went double platinum and reached #1 on the Billboard dance charts. Most recently, IN-Q co-wrote 7 songs for the Disney Hip-Hop movie, Let It Shine, including the singles, Don't Run Away and Guardian Angel. His one-man show has toured nationally since 2009 and has been seen at over 50 universities across the country. His first full-length poetry CD, When Two Worlds Collide, was released to critical acclaim. URB Magazine wrote, "IN-Q's brand of Hip-Hop, a penetratingly fluent account of what he's been through, paired with retro-funky sampling, is believable and heartbreaking even. His newest album puts true mastery of rhythmic-artistic-poetry on exhibit."
An accomplished stage and screen actor, IN-Q has been seen in films like The Magnificent Cooly-T and Speechless, and has television credits that include The Cleaner, Svetlana, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. IN-Q's unique style of inspiring self-expression has been utilized by creative writing programs across the country. He teaches workshops in high schools, junior highs, universities, libraries, and prisons around California, as well as instructing yearly poetry programs to Upward Bound students at Long Beach Community College and UCLA Young Writers at their annual conference in Lake Arrowhead. IN-Q founded the Los Angeles based Actors' Lounge in 2004, a monthly open mic for actors held at The Greenway Court Theatre, and starred in the run of their original musical, Hercules on Normandie, for which he was given an observership at the prestigious Actors' Studio by Martin Landau. Most recently, IN-Q starred in the premiere theatrical run of Jumping the Median, an original play that was performed at the Santa Monica Playhouse and was produced by television legend Norman Lear.