Steven Sapp
| Steven Sapp | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bronx, NY |
| Occupation | Poet / Playwright / Actor / Director |
| Website | |
| universesonstage.com | |
Steven Sapp (born and raised in the South Bronx, New York) co-founded THE POINT Community Development Corporation (Hunts Point) in 1993 and Universes (poetic theatre ensemble) in 1996, both in collaboration with Mildred Ruiz-Sapp. The Universes (poetic theatre ensemble) currently consists of four core members: Steven Sapp, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, Gamal Abdel Chasten and William Ruiz (a.k.a. Ninja).[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Theater credits
- Purgatory
- Another I Dies Slowly
- Live From the Edge
- Slanguage
- Blue Suite
- Ameriville
- Rhythmicity: Flipping The Script
- One Shot In Lotus Position
- The Ride
- The Denver Project
Playwright/Actor - AMERIVILLE (Director Chay Yew); The Denver Project (Curious Theater-Director Dee Covington); One Shot in Lotus Position (The War Anthology-Curious Theater-Director Bonnie Metzger); BLUE SUITE (Director-Chay Yew, previously Eyewitness Blues-NY Theatre Workshop-Director Talvin Wilks); RHYTHMICITY (Humana Festival); SLANGUAGE (NY Theater Workshop-Director Jo Bonney); Director - The Ride (playwright/Actor/Director); The Architecture of Loss (Assistant Director to Chay Yew); Will Powers’ The Seven (Director-The Univ. of Iowa); Alfred Jarry's UBU: Enchained (Director-Teatre Polski, Poland).
Television credits
- HBO's Bored to Death
- HBO's Def Poetry Jam (Season 4- Episode 9, with UNIVERSES)
Awards/Affiliations
- 2008 Jazz at Lincoln Center Rhythm Road Tour
- 2008 TCG - Theatre Communications Group - Peter Zeisler Award
- 2002 TCG - Theatre Communications Group - National Directors Award
- 2002-2004 and 1999-2001 TCG - Theatre Communications Group, National Theater Artist Residency Program Award
- 1999 OBIE Award Grant (The Point CDC & Live From Theater Theater)
- 1999 Bessie Awards (The Point CDC)
- 1998 and 2002 BRIO Awards (Bronx Recognizes its own-Performance) from The Bronx Council on the Arts
- 1998 Union Square Award recipient
- Van Lier Fellowship w/ New Dramatists
- Co-Founder of The Point CDC
- New York Theatre Workshop - Usual Suspect
- Bard College, BA 1989
Publications:
- UNIVERSES - THE BIG BANG (2010 release, TCG Books)
- SLANGUAGE in The Fire This Time (TCG).
See also
- Universes (poetic theatre ensemble)
References
- ↑ McNulty, Charles (November 16, 1999). "Gazing Into the Universes". The Village Voice (New York, NY: Village Voice Media). Retrieved April 24, 2010.
- ↑ Solomon, Alisa (July 24, 1999). "Beats and Keats". The Village Voice (New York, NY: Village Voice Media). Retrieved April 24, 2010.
- ↑ "New World Theater: Universes". University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
- ↑ Monsen, Lauren (April 25, 2008). "Poetic Theater Ensemble Enthralls Audiences on Six-Nation Tour". US State Department. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
- ↑ "Universes’ ‘Ameriville’ looks at fear through lens of Katrina". TheDartmouth.com. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
- ↑ "2009 Humana Festival Calendar" (PDF). Actors Theatre of Louisville. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
- ↑ "National Association of Latino Arts and Culture - June 2007". National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
- ↑ "OSF Commissions Second Round of Artists for U.S. History Cycle". Oregon Shakespeare Festival. June 12, 2009. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
- ↑ Nesti, Robert (July 27, 2005). "Street-smart `Slanguage' is as good as its words". Boston Herald, archived at LexisNexis (Boston, MA: Boston Herald Inc.). Retrieved April 24, 2010. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Van Gelder, Lawrence (July 28, 2001). "The City's Beat, With an Iambic Heat". The New York times (New York, NY: The New York Times Company). Retrieved April 25, 2010.
- ↑ Spera, Keith (February 28, 2010). "'Ameriville,' a hip-hop musical with a social conscience, is at its best when its focus is on Katrina's aftermath". The Times-Picayune, archived at LexisNexis (New Orleans, LA: The Times-Picayune Publishing Company). Retrieved April 24, 2010. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Brighton, Kurt (November 19, 2009). "Staging Katrina's stormy legacy". The Denver Post (Denver, CO: The Denver Post). Retrieved April 25, 2010. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ C. Carr, C. (Aug 25, 1998). "slave-theater". The Village Voice (New York, NY: Village Voice Media). Retrieved August 25, 1998.