Steven Sapp

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]}

Steven Sapp
Born	Bronx, NY
Occupation	Poet / Playwright / Actor / Director
Website	universesonstage.com

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
• 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 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).

References

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.

External links

• Universes Official site