Marcus Smalls

About Marcus Smalls

MarcusSmalls is a Teaching Artist and multi-genre writer who uses his lifelong love of hip-hop to moderate creative environments around spirituality and identity. He has been a writer in residence at Teachers & Writers Collaborative and a WritersCorps fellow at Bronx Council on the Arts and is the recipient of the 2021 St. Luke’s Alumni Artistic Achievement Award. Marcus has workshopped with award winning authors, M. Evelina Galang at VONA/Voices in 2015 and A. Naomi Jackson in Catapult’s Master Class in 2017. Marcus\' Clan in Da Front-Wu-Tang: An American Saga Review is published in The Journal of Hip Hop Studies and he is currently featured on The MixTape Museum website. Marcus is a Teaching Artist at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Marcus is also the Chief Creative Officer at Prayer Kloset Productions, LLC. PKP has adapted The Divine Sinner Chronicles manuscript into a stage play. The Divine Sinner pilot is in pre-development in Kimberlea Kressal’s, TV Writing for the Actor.

Experience

1. Teaching Artist

   Brooklyn Academy of Music

   Feb 2016 — Present · Brooklyn, NY, US

Education

• Bakke Graduate University

  Master's Degree, Theology/Theological Studies

  2004 — 2009

Skills

• Creative Direction
• Social Media Marketing
• Social Networking
• Editorial
• Event Planning
• Leadership Development
• Video Production
• Creative Strategy
• Public Speaking
• Entertainment
• Team Building
• Program Development
• Voice Acting
• Editing
• Television
• New Media
• Voice Over
• Storytelling
• Newsletters
• Public Relations
• Media Relations
• Social Media
• Coaching
• Blogging
• Press Releases
• Strategic Planning
• Writing
• Creative Writing
• Video
• Copywriting
• Journalism
• Music
• Content Strategy
• Marketing Strategy
• Strategy
• Strategic Communications