Till the Break of Dawn is being billed as the first commercial production of hip-hop in straight-play form, from one of the pioneers of the field. Hoch founded the Hip-Hop Theater Festival in 2000. Till the Break of Dawn is Hoch's first new written work to be presented in New York since 1998, when he received a Drama Desk nomination for his one-man show Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop.
Hoch founded the Hip-Hop Theater Festival in 2000, which has presented over 75 hip-hop generation plays from around the world . He also sits on the board of the Theatre Communications Group and is the 2007 Sundance Theatre Lab's Playwright-In-Residence. Hoch's writing and acting credits for television and film include Lucky You, Bamboozled, Washington Heights, Prison Song, Subway Stories, Thin Red Line, Whiteboys, Blackhawk Down, American Splendor, War Of The Worlds and HBO's Def Poetry. The HBO version of his Drama Desk-nominated one-man show Some People received a Cable Ace Award Nomination and the film version of Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop, recently released on DVD, received an Urbanworld Film Festival Award.