FORA.tv Speaker - James Hatch

James Hatch (The Graduate Center and City College) is a Ph.D. in Theatre, University of Iowa. Professor Hatch is Co-founder/Administrator of the Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc., and archive of African American Cultural Arts, a not-for-profit Research Library chartered under the New York State Board of Regents. The Collection's major public program, "Artist and Influence," has published 25 volumes of minority artists lives. Copies of the journal series can be found in the Mina Rees Library at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

He is an author of several volumes of African American theatre history and is also a play and screen-writer whose work has won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and two Obie Awards.