Faculty
Rickerby Hinds
Assistant Professor
Playwriting
B.A., UC Riverside
M.F.A., UC Los Angeles
E-mail: rickerby.hinds@ucr.edu
Office: INTN 2018
Phone: 951-827-3871
Professor Hinds was twice awarded the UCLA/Audrey Skirball-Kenis (ASK) Award for best play. His visionary creations span the gamut of human emotions and experiences. Blackballin', which received a reading at London's Royal Court Theatre, examines the issue of race and history in American sports and society. The semi-autobiographical Birthmark (commissioned by Showtime to be adapted into a screenplay) explores the social and cultural conflicts of a Spanish-speaking immigrant of African-descent forced to choose between the limiting racial categories offered within American society. In One Size Fits All, Hinds tackles the global issue of the exploitation of children by tracing the life of an athletic sneaker from its creation in an Indonesian sweatshop, to the ghettos of America, to the sugar cane fields of the Dominican Republic, and finally to the feet of a child soldier in Eastern Europe, and his Keep Hedz Ringin', his Hip Hop Opera adaptation of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle explores the effects of greed.