About

Snow has crafted a truly unique, storied, and trailblazing career as a beatbox artist and storyteller…

Drama Desk winner and Lecturer of Music Theater & Theater at Princeton University. Snow was a 3 time Artist in Residence at Harvard University Office of the Arts. Recent credits include work as the vocal foley artist creating vocal soundscapes with the creative team of Dominique Morriseau's Tony winning play Skeleton Crew on Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson and starring Phylicia Rashad (who won the Tony for Best Featured Actress for her work.)

He was the composer for La Jolla Playhouse 2020 audioplay series Walks of Life episode 4 created by Blindspot Collective.

His latest work Upstream co-created with collaborator Faye Chiao premiered at Syracuse Stage’s Cold Read Festival in 2021. A concert version of UPSTREAM was presented as part of Two River Theatre's summer Plaza Series featuring Suzanne Saba Hughes and Faye Chiao.

He wrote and starred in the Soil Beneath: an Empirical Decay (2020) with Primary Stages and 59E59 Theaters directed by Kimille Howard with original compositions by Diedre Murray. He appeared in Two River Theater’s production of Oo Bla Dee written by Golden Globe winner Regina Taylor and directed by Tony winner Ruben Santiago Hudson. He was a composer and lyricist for the McCarter Theatre’s 2018 production of Crowns alongside Pulitzer finalist and Obie winner Diedre Murray at Princeton University. He also appeared in McCarter Theatre’s “Princeton and Slavery Plays” directed by Carl Cofield. Snow is an interdisciplinary artist. He performed and collaborated with Bryonn Bain and Gina Belafonte in the National Black Theatres production of Lyrics From Lockdown.

He released his debut album on Warner Music in Europe as the songwriter for his group Spoken Love. His work in Poland has topped European radio charts.

Considered a pioneering figure in American beatbox culture, Snow co-founded the American Beatbox Championships where he served as the executive producer for 7 years. The annual event held in New York City is a 3 day international arts festival featuring performances, film screenings, workshops, gallery exhibitions, panel discussions, and of course beatboxing battles of all kinds. Snow also created, produced, and starred in the feature documentary American Beatboxer which was placed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame archive as well as Schomburg Center for Black Research, the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, and the Harvard University Hip Hop archive. The film was licensed by Revolt TV (Time Warner) after receiving accolades at numerous domestic and international film festivals.

Snow starred on Broadway in 2016-2017 in the a cappella musical In Transit at Circle In The Square. He originated the role of “Boxman” both on and off Broadway. He has headlined Carnegie Hall thrice with Distinguished Concerts International.

His critically acclaimed autobiographical choreopoem The Unwritten Law was commissioned by Dixon Place experimental theatre and hailed as “Political Theatre at it’s best. The most powerful theatre I have ever witnessed” by Broadwayworld (Victoria Ordin)

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He has performed on stage alongside many notable artists including Eternia, KRS One, Nile Rodgers, Kayah, Eli Fontain, Mimi Jones, Hasan Salaam, Gregory Porter, Corinthia Cromwell, George Caldwell and has opened for artists including Snoop Dogg, Immortal Technique, Bahamadia, Jean Grey, MC Lyte, Slick Rick, Pharaoh Monch, Rah Digga, Gloria Gaynor, Hot Chocolate, Sister Sledge, and The Village People among many others.

For over two decades Snow's work as a teaching artist has centered on engaging the arts as a vehicle for social change and empowerment. Chesney Snow became the first full time music theater faculty at Princeton University in 2022 as a lecturer of music theatre and theater where he teaches courses for the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, he is also an associate professor at Berklee College of Music in NYC and a former chair of theater at Harlem School of the Arts and an Artist in Residence at PS158 in Manhattan.

He has been a collaborator with Emmy award-winning filmmaker Lisa Russell for over 10 years developing performances, workshops, and dialog surrounding the arts and education with the United Nations. He has taught workshops and masterclasses in countless prisons, hospitals, public and private schools and universities including Harvard University, Juilliard, Princeton University, New York University, University of Wisconsin Platteville, the Kingdom of Bhutan, and the U.S. State Department with American Voices, as well as numerous theaters throughout the country.

He is a long time teaching artist with New Victory Theater and more recently with The Town Hall in New York City where he created a storytelling intensive with young incarcerated men in Rikers Island Correctional facility and with the Fortune Society.

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