Idris Goodwin is the Producing Artistic Director of StageOne Family Theater in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a playwright, director, break beat poet, and educator driven by the ethos of Hip Hop. His plays And In This Corner Cassius Clay, How We Got On, and Hype Man: a break beat play are produced at theatres, college campuses, and non-traditional spaces nationwide. Goodwin has received commissions and support from The Kennedy Center, The Eugene O'Neill Conference, Oregon Shakespeare Festival's American Revolutions Series, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Seattle Children's Theatre and Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor Residency. Currently, he is writing a play co-commissioned by Arena Stage's Power Plays Initiative and The Playwright Center's McKnight Fellowship. He has published three poetry collections with Haymarket Books including Can I Kick It? (2019) and appeared on HBO, Sesame Street, NPR, BBC radio, and The Discovery Channel.