Steve Sapp

Co-Founder/Core Member of UNIVERSES since 1995

Playwriting/Acting credits include: AmericUS ; UNISON ; PARTY PEOPLE; AMERIVILLE ; The Denver Project; One Shot in Lotus Position; BLUE SUITE; SLANGUAGE; RHYTHMICITY; THE RIDE. Acting only credits include: Off The Rails (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) The Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) . Directing only credits include: Serious Money (SUNY Purchase) The Thanksgiving Play (Southern Oregon University) Fireflies (Curious Theatre Company) Passover (Curious Theatre Company); SWOPERA by (Carpetbag Theatre) ; Metamorphoses (SUNY Purchase); THE SEVEN (The Univ. of Iowa); UBU: Enchained (Teatre Polski, Poland). Awards/Affiliations: 2020 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation National Playwright Residency Program recipient; 2020 Drama League Impact Director; 2015 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award (Theatre); Oregon Shakespeare Festival Acting Company Member (3 Seasons:’12-‘14); 2008 U.S. Cultural Ambassador w/ the U.S. State Dept./Jazz at 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 CDC; New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect; BARD College, BA ’89 - Theater. Publications: UNIVERSES’ The Revolution will be Live! (2021 release- TCG Books); SLANGUAGE in The Fire This Time (TCG Books); AMERIVILLE (Humana Festival 2009, Playscripts, Inc); BLUE SUITE in The Goodman Theatre’s Festival Latino - Six Plays (Northwestern University Press); RHYTHMICITY (Humana Festival 2003, Playscripts, Inc) PARTY PEOPLE in the Manifesto Anthology (Rain City Projects- Fall 2014); FIFTY PLAYWRIGHTS on their CRAFT (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama) Featured on the covers of American Theater Magazine 2004 and The Source Magazine 2000. Member: Actors Equity Association (AEA)