UNIVERSES
Changing the face of American Theater...
Steven Sapp
Home base: The Bronx, NY
Favorite books: The Autobiography of Malcolm X; Jazz in the bitter sweet blues of life (Wynton Marsalis)
Favorite movies: Purple Rain
Favorite Visual Artist: TATS Cru
& Bua
Home base: The Bronx, NY
Favorite books: The Autobiography of Malcolm X; Jazz in the bitter sweet blues of life (Wynton Marsalis)
Favorite movies: Purple Rain
Favorite Visual Artist: TATS Cru
& Bua
Poetic
Influences:
Wayne Providence, Sandra Maria Esteves,
Reg.e.gaines, Amiri Baraka, Willie
Perdomo
Musical Influence: Prince, Miles Davis, Depeche Mode
Musical Influence: Prince, Miles Davis, Depeche Mode
Founding member UNIVERSES.
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
); 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). Awards/Affiliations:
2008 Jazz@Lincoln Center Rhythm Road
Tour;
2008 TCG Peter Zeisler Award;
2002 TCG National Directors Award;
2002-2004 and 1999-2001 TCG National
Theater Artist Residency Program Award;
1998 and 2002 BRIO Awards (Bronx
Recognizes its own-Performance); Van Lier
Fellowship w/ New Dramatists; Co-Founder
of The Point; New York Theatre Workshop
Usual Suspect; BARD College, BA ’89.
Publications: UNIVERSES-THE BIG BANG
(2010 release- TCG Books); SLANGUAGE in
The Fire This Time (TCG).