Tim Barsky
Tim Barsky is an American musician from Boston, Massachusetts.Hurwitt, Sam"Word Beat" ''San Francisco Chronicle'', 5 December 2004. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is a beatboxer-instrumentalist, playwright-performer, and urban circus artist. He is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in Islamic and Judaic religious studies. He also studied at the Berklee School of Music and with the Chasidic folklorist and archivist Fishel Bresler. Trained as a traditional Jewish storyteller, his use of contemporary culture within traditional forms resulted in ''The Bright River'', an underground theatrical piece that achieved cult status within the Bay area. In 2007 he was awarded a $50,000 Gerbode Emerging Playwright's Grant for ''Track in a Box'', a hip hop and circus based play about junkie police, strippers and giant puppets which was set to premiere in Fall 2009. His work has been produced and performed at The Brava Theatre (2006–08), Climate Theatre (2008; also ...
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