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Steven Sapp

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Steven Sapp
Born
Bronx, NY
OccupationPoet / Playwright / Actor / Director
Websiteuniversesonstage.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 1995, both in collaboration with Mildred Ruiz-Sapp.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Theater credits

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  • 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
  • Spring Training
  • Party People
  • UniSon

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 PowersThe Seven (Director-The Univ. of Iowa); Alfred Jarry's UBU: Enchained (Director-Teatre Polski, Poland).

Television credits

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Awards/Affiliations

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Publications:

  • UNIVERSES - THE BIG BANG (2010 release, TCG Books)
  • SLANGUAGE in The Fire This Time (TCG).

References

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  1. ^ McNulty, Charles (November 16, 1999). "Gazing Into the Universes". The Village Voice. New York, NY: Village Voice Media. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  2. ^ Solomon, Alisa (July 24, 1999). "Beats and Keats". The Village Voice. New York, NY: Village Voice Media. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  3. ^ "New World Theater: Universes". University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Archived from the original on May 29, 2010. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  4. ^ Monsen, Lauren (April 25, 2008). "Poetic Theater Ensemble Enthralls Audiences on Six-Nation Tour". US State Department. Archived from the original on May 30, 2009. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  5. ^ "Universes' 'Ameriville' looks at fear through lens of Katrina". TheDartmouth.com. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  6. ^ "2009 Humana Festival Calendar" (PDF). Actors Theatre of Louisville. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 8, 2009. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  7. ^ "National Association of Latino Arts and Culture - June 2007". National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  8. ^ "OSF Commissions Second Round of Artists for U.S. History Cycle". Oregon Shakespeare Festival. June 12, 2009. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (July 28, 2001). "The City's Beat, With an Iambic Heat". The New York Times. New York, NY. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Brighton, Kurt (November 19, 2009). "Staging Katrina's stormy legacy". The Denver Post. Denver, CO: The Denver Post. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
  13. ^ C. Carr, C. (August 25, 1998). "slave-theater". The Village Voice. New York, NY: Village Voice Media.
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