Then, he's a Jewish mother arguing with her son about his job in a dangerous part of town. Next, he's a disenfranchised African-American youth talking tough with a former buddy who made it out. His talent for vocal imitation was encouraged at an early age by his mother, a speech pathologist. Hoch went to New York's High School of Music and the Performing Arts and then to the North Carolina School of the Arts. He received a scholarship to study acting in London and returned to New York, where in 1991 he opened his first one-man show, a gritty, dramatic improvisation on the lives of four New Yorkers.
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