Donwill is a DJ with hosting skills who is skilled at reading rooms and keeping dance floors moving. While hip hop is his primary discipline his DJ sets are a genre bending blend of funk, soul, disco and R&B mixed only as someone raised on rap music can do. He currently hosts The Almanac of rap - a Webby award winning podcast - in partnership with Okayplayer and Too Much rap on the newly relaunched East Village Radio. 

He’s very well known in the comedy scene as Michelle Buteau’s tour DJ as well as the co-host of “Shouting at the Screen” - an interactive event based on Blaxploitation cinema - with former Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac. He is also the house DJ for several prominent New York comedy shows and works alongside comedians like Ilana Glazer, Janelle James, Micheal Che, Hannibal Buress and several more on a very regular basis.

Donwill is a notable presence in the world of hip hop as well As a member of the acclaimed hip-hop duo Tanya Morgan which formed in 2006 and continues to release new music. He was also a music producer for HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”, ZIWE on Showtime and Slate’s award winning Slow Burn Podcast.

As a DJ his past clients have included Summerstage, Sonos, Bonnaroo, SXSW, Netflix, Red Bull, GREY Global Group, Slate, TED, Nordstrom, HBO, Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, Okayplayer, Etsy, Soulcycle, WNYC, NBC, Comedy Central, Brooklyn Bowl, Soho House, Google, Alamo Draft House Cinema, Weeksville, Wax Poetics, Brooklyn Brewery, Adidas,Vans, The Shed NYC, Times Square Art Alliance.

A genre bending blend of funk, soul, disco and R&B spun through a hip hop lens. 

Summerstage, Sonos, Bonnaroo, SXSW, Netflix, Red Bull, GREY Global Group, Slate, TED, Nordstrom, HBO, Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, Okayplayer, Etsy, Soulcycle, WNYC, NBC, Comedy Central, Brooklyn Bowl, Soho House, Google, Alamo Draft House Cinema, Weeksville, Wax Poetics, Brooklyn Brewery, Adidas,Vans, The Shed NYC, Times Square Art Alliance

Opening Set for Nile Rodgers & Duran Duran

DJ for BRIC’s Celebrate Brooklyn 50 Years of Hip Hop Show

DJ for New York City Public Library’s A Night At The Museum 50: The Philosophy of Hip Hop

DJ for Michelle Buteau’s Netflix Comedy special at Radio City Music Hall

DJ for Michelle Buteau’s Netflix Comedy special Welcome To Buteaupia

DJ for 2 DopeQueens Podcast and HBO Tapings

DJ for Adulting with Michelle Buteau & Jordan Carlos

DJ for Night Train with Wyatt Cenac

Tour DJ for Michelle Buteau

DJ on Fool’s Gold Livestream. 

DJ on Soul In The Horn Livestream

Produced music for 

• ZIWE on Showtime (Black Friends)

• Last Week Tonight on HBO (Donald Drumpf)

• Slate’s Slow Burn Podcast (Season 3: Biggie & Pac)

Member of SAG AFTRA

Member of The Recording Academy