Steven Sapp (born and raised in the South Bronx, New York) co-founded

The POINT Community Development Corporation The POINT Community Development Corporation is a non-profit community development corporation dedicated to youth development, culture, and the economic revitalization of the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx, from which it takes its na ...

(Hunts Point) in 1993 and Universes (poetic theatre ensemble) in 1995, both in collaboration with Mildred Ruiz-Sapp.

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 Unison (stylised as UNISON) is a Great Britain, British trade union. Along with Unite the Union, Unite, Unison is one of the two largest trade unions in the United Kingdom, with over 1.2 million members who work predominantly in public servic ...

Playwright/Actor - ''AMERIVILLE'' (Director

Chay Yew Chay Yew () is a playwright and stage director who was born in Singapore. He was artistic director of the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago from 2011 to 2020. Career Chay Yew's breakthrough work came from his early plays ''Porcelain'' and ' ...

); The Denver Project (Curious Theater-Director Dee Covington); ''One Shot in Lotus Position'' (The War Anthology-Curious Theater-Director Bonnie Metzger); ''BLUE SUITE'' (Director-

, previously Eyewitness Blues-NY Theatre Workshop-Director Talvin Wilks); RHYTHMICITY (Humana Festival); SLANGUAGE (NY Theater Workshop-Director

Jo Bonney Jo Bonney is an American theater director who has worked Off-Broadway, regionally and internationally, primarily focused on the development of new plays. Early life and education Bonney was born in Australia, the daughter of a Qantas airline p ...

); Director - ''The Ride'' (playwright/Actor/Director); ''The Architecture of Loss'' (Assistant Director to

);

Will Powers Will Powers was the stage name used by celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith when she created a self-help comedy music album. The 1983 album, entitled ''Dancing for Mental Health'', used affirmations set to music to poke fun at the self ...

’ ''The Seven'' (Director-The Univ. of Iowa);

Alfred Jarry Alfred Jarry (; ; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French Artistic symbol, symbolist writer who is best known for his play ''Ubu Roi'' (1896)'','' often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealism, Surrealist, and Futurism, Futurist ...

's ''UBU: Enchained'' (Director-Teatre Polski, Poland).

Television credits

* HBO's ''

Bored to Death ''Bored to Death'' is an American comedy series that ran on HBO from September 20, 2009, to November 28, 2011. The show was created by author Jonathan Ames, and stars Jason Schwartzman as a fictional Jonathan Ames—a writer based in Brooklyn, ...

'' * HBO's ''

Def Poetry ''Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry'', better known as simply ''Def Poetry Jam'' or ''Def Poetry'', was a spoken word poetry television series hosted by Mos Def and airing on HBO between 2002 and 2007. The series features performances by estab ...

Jam'' (Season 4- Episode 9, with UNIVERSES)

Awards/Affiliations

* 2008

Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz at Lincoln Center is an organization based in New York City. Part of Lincoln Center, the organization was founded in 1987 and opened at Time Warner Center (now Deutsche Bank Center) in October 2004. The organization seeks to “represent th ...

Rhythm Road Tour * 2008 TCG -

Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is a non-profit service organization headquartered in New York City that promotes professional non-profit theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, us ...

- 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 The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given since 1956 by ''The Village Voice'' newspaper to theater artists and groups involved in off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. Starting just after th ...

Grant (The Point CDC & Live From Theater Theater) * 1999

Bessie Awards The New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessie Awards, are awarded annually for exceptional achievement by independent dance artists presenting their work in New York City. The broad categories of the awards are: choreography, ...

(The Point CDC) * 1998 and 2002 BRIO Awards (Bronx Recognizes its own-Performance) from the

Bronx Council on the Arts The Bronx ( ) is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York. It shares a land border with Westchester County to its north; to its south and west, the New York City bo ...

* 1998 Union Square Award recipient * Van Lier Fellowship w/

New Dramatists New Dramatists is an organization of playwrights founded in 1949 and located at 424 West 44th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen (Clinton) neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The members of New Dramatists par ...

* Co-Founder of The Point CDC * New York Theatre Workshop - ''Usual Suspect'' *

Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains within the Hudson River Historic District ...

, BA 1989 Publications: * ''UNIVERSES - THE BIG BANG'' (2010 release, TCG Books) * SLANGUAGE in ''The Fire This Time'' (TCG).

References

External links

''Universes'' Official site
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