Phill Branch

Phill Branch is a Moth GrandSlam Champion and the 2019 recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council's "Solo Performance Award" and a 2019 Rubys Artist Award grantee for storytelling and performance. Isolation Be Like (2020), a podcast he produces and hosts, uses storytelling to riff on current events and issues such as art, identity, education and parenting. An alumnus of the American Film Institute, Branch directed Searching for Shaniqua (2016); his documentary about the impact names have on our lives.The film won the HBO Best Documentary award at the 2016 Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival. Highlights: Artist Residency, Baltimore Theatre Project, 2020 Rubys Artist Grant, Deutsch Foundation, 2019 Artist Grant (Solo Performance), Maryland State Arts Council, 2019 The Moth DC - GrandSLAM Champion, 2018 HBO Best Documentary Award, Searching for Shaniqua, 2016 Lambda Literary Foundation, Emerging LGBTQ Voices, Fellow, 2013 Los Angeles Web Series Fest, "PuNanny Diaries" Outstanding Dramedy, 2011