Craig muMs Grant

Craig Grant was an American poet and actor who often went by muMs the Schemer. He was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx, and he first drew wide attention through the documentary SlamNation, which followed his Nuyorican Poetry Slam Team at the 1996 national competition. He adopted the name muMs around age 20 while performing with a rap group, read his poems on three seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and belonged to New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company. His best known screen role was the poet Arnold Jackson on the HBO series Oz. On stage he appeared in A View from 151st Street in 2007 and The Insurgents in 2015, and in 2014 he wrote and performed A Sucker Emcee. His films included Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Bamboozled (2000), Birdman and Good Time, and he also appeared on Luke Cage and Horace and Pete. He died in 2021.