Bryonn Bain

[3] Executive-produced by Harry Belafonte,[4] the show tells stories of wrongful incarceration through spoken-word poetry, hip-hop theater, calypso, comedy and classical music.

[5] Bain hosted My Two Cents, a current affairs talk show on BET, for five consecutive seasons,[6] and starred in Pig Hunt, the last film directed by Academy Award-winner James Isaac.

[7] A Tony nominated theater maker, Bain was a producer of the Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange's classic For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf.

His West Indian father was a calypso singer and then a soldier, and his mother of South Asian descent, served as a registered ICU nurse for over 40 years.

[12][13] His work has reached prisons in 25 states in the United States including Rikers Island, Sing Sing, Wallkill, DC Jail, Metropolitan Detention Center, Boys Town Detention Center, California Institution for Women,[14] Custody to Community Transitional Reentry Program, Barry J Nidorf Juvenile Hall,[14] Central Juvenile Hall and Folsom.