_The Man
Postell Pringle [aka POS] is a seasoned 20-year veteran of the stage, the lens, the pen and the microphone...And he’s just warming up. A critically-acclaimed performance artist, Pos takes a multi-disciplined approach to art. Based solely on an urge to fuse a love of stagecraft, visual and oral storytelling, folklore and hip hop music. Just as David Chang flips a southeast Asian noodle dish using NYC street cart ingredients, Pos is dedicated to creating new works by breathing life into a dusty, old cannon. The result: a transportive, historically rich, delicious trip. Family-style. No reservations necessary.
He’s an actor, performer, rapper, music producer, playwright and occasional director and choreographer. He hails from Decatur, GA. He resides in ‘do or die’ Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn NY.
_The Music
“Skilled in the trade of that old boom bap”
- Q Tip of ATCQ
Pos has performed and independently released hip hop music since his solo debut LP, The Good Thief. Boasting a discography of nearly a dozen albums and mixtapes, in 2020 he successively dropped 5 new singles, culminating in the indie release of his first solo studio LP in almost a decade, Hot Sauce From Hell. Download his entire catalog, solo & collaborative, and on all streaming platforms.
_The Band
The Rap Pack (fka The Retar Crew), has toured statewide and internationally since it was co-founded in ‘09. They’ve released five LP’s and close to a hundred music videos, music-comedy sketches and more. During ‘the pandemic year’ of 2020, they launched a self-produced weekly live stream webseries, following postponement or cancellation of all their gigs. Season 1 of [Tuesday Night Live with The Rap Pack] is an intimate look at how their distinct brand of alt-rap is constructed. Piece-by-piece, it’s a musical exploration, from an idea to songwriting to production to mixing. An utterly fresh, spankin’ new track is birthed every episode. In seasons 2 and 3, a litany of phenomenal guest musical artists joined in on the act. Musicians and songwriters whose genres range from ‘world’ music, to 60’s soul to bhangra to dark indie rock to neo-pop to 90’s house music to #SpaceAgedGangstaMuzik. No sound is too ‘out-of-the-box’. In fact...there is no box. Within each episode The Pack shoots the $h#t with their musical guest, musing on beats, art and life. They then create a complete original collaboration that is posted for free stream/download on The Pack’s [Soundcloud]. The result is invariably an earworm of a tune, often hilarious but unequivocally unique. “We make the funny and it still bangs in the truck.”
_The Actor
From Broadway to Off-Broadway, TV to feature film, podcast to video game VO, Pos has been professionally acting, dancing, performing and practicing the multi-faceted art of storytelling. He’s done - and enjoys - it [all].
The Company_
Pos is a member of Q Brothers Collective, the award-winning and internationally acclaimed theater, multi-media and music crew of artists. For 20 years they’ve generated groundbreaking works of art, fusing hip hop music and theatrical storytelling. They’ve adapted stories from the ‘classics’ into wholly original, entertaining, comedic and dramatic, fast-paced musicals. QBC has toured the globe - producing and performing their shows as far as New Zealand and Australia to South Korea and throughout western and eastern Europe and the US. As a playwright, co-creator, co-composer or performer, Postell’s QBC collaborations include the award-winning and critically acclaimed Othello: The Remix, Funk It Up About Nothin’, Bomb-itty of Errors, Q Brothers Christmas Carol, ms. estrada, Rome Sweet Rome, Long Way Home (Chicago Children’s Choir) and the forthcoming Rami & Jaliya (in-development).
Q Brothers also performs and produces kid/family-friendly hip hop, headlining kid and family music stages at festivals like Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits. Recently Q Brothers released their long-awaited, highly-anticipated debut kids hip hop album to much fanfare - BUGGIN’.
Education_
Postell earned a BA in Theater (acting + playwriting) from Bates College.
Conservatory training at Holborn Center for Performing Arts (RADA), in London, England.
Pos appeared on Broadway in A Free Man of Color by John Guare, directed by George C. Wolfe (Lincoln Center Theater). Off Broadway in Othello: The Remix (Westside), The Urban Retreat (Public Theater/NYSF); The Seven directed by Jo Bonney, choreo by Bill T. Jones (NY Theatre Workshop); Romeo & Juliet (Lucille Lortel); Hoodoo Love (Cherry Lane) and Song for New York (Mabou Mines) directed by the late, great Ruth Maleczech. Regionally he’s performed in The Matchmaker (Goodman Theater), Broke-ology (Kansas City Repertory); The Old Settler (Triad Stage); The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse) and A Soldier’s Play (Arkansas Rep) and moe.
In Film/TV he co-starred or had supporting roles in 30 Miles From Nowhere, The Hudson Tribes, 14085, Unknown Soldier, The Edge of Town and Orange Bow. Unforgettable (CBS), Law & Order (NBC), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC) and a recurring role in the final season of Denis Leary’s Rescue Me (FX). As a voiceover artist I’ve provided voices for several Gen-Z Media podcast and VO/motion capture for Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV, Red Dead Redemption 2 & GTA: The Lost and Damned. He’s also produced and co-hosted the original podcast.
(RapPackComedy. All his music can be found at postell.bandcamp.com . He resides, with his family, in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn NY. [postellpringle.com] @posLuv