MILDRED RUIZ-SAPP
Home base: Lower East Side & The Bronx
Favorite Authors/Books:
John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”;
Jane Ausen's "Pride & Prejudice"
Favorite movies:
Pride and Prejudice
Favorite Visual Artists:
Dali
Poetic Influences:
Gloria Cuevas, Pablo Neruda, Sandra Maria Esteves, Rev. Pedro Pietri, Reg.e.gaines, Willie Perdomo, Louis Reyes-Rivera, Luis Alfaro, Sonia Sanchez (The list is endless)
Muiscal Influences:
Odilio Gonzales, Juan Lejido, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone (The list is endless)
Co-Founder and core member of UNIVERSES - Playwright/Actor/Vocalist.
Playwriting/Acting credits include: PARTY PEOPLE (Directed/Developed by Liesl Tommy); AMERIVILLE (Directed/Developed by Chay Yew); The Denver Project (Director Dee Covington); One Shot in Lotus Position (Director Bonnie Metzger); BLUE SUITE (Directed/Developed by Chay Yew ); RHYTHMICITY (Directed by Steven Sapp); SLANGUAGE (Directed/Developed by Jo Bonney); THE RIDE (Directed by Steven Sapp)
Acting only credits include: The Comedy of Errors (Directed by Kent Gash); The Unfortunates (Directed by Shana Cooper; Alfred Jarry's UBU:Enchained (Director Steven Sapp).
Awards/Affiliations: 2008 Ambassador of Culture: U.S. State Dept. and Jazz at Lincoln Center - Rhythm Road Tour; 2008 TCG Peter Zeisler Award; 2006 Career Advancement Fellowship from the Ford foundation through Pregones Theater; 2002-2004 and 1999-2001 TCG National Theater Artist Residency Program Award; BRIO Awards (Bronx Recognizes its own-Singing); Co-Founder of The Point CDC; Board Member (National Performance Network - NPN); Former Board Member (Network of Ensemble Theaters-NET); New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect; BARD College, BA ’92 (Literature/Language). Publications: UNIVERSES-THE BIG BANG (2015 release- TCG Books); SLANGUAGE in The Fire This Time (TCG Books); BLUE SUITE in The Goodman Theatre's Festival Latino - Six Plays (Northwestern University Press); PARTY PEOPLE in The Manifesto Anthology (Rain City Projects- Fall 2014); Featured on the covers of American Theater Magazine 2004 and The Source Magazine 2000. Member: AEA
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