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.

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).