Steven Satta
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF VOICE AND ACTING (2000) ssatta@towson.edu (410)704-5993
Steve Satta is a professional actor, director and voice/dialect
coach. He holds an MFA in acting and a university diploma in voice
teaching from York University in Toronto where he studied with
David Smukler. He also holds a BFA in drama from NYU's Tisch School
of the Arts.
He has worked as a professional actor on Broadway, Off-Broadway
and in the regions for such companies as The National Actor's Theatre,
The Riverside Shakespeare Company, The Pearl Theatre, Mill Mountain
Theatre and The National Shakespeare Company. In Baltimore he has
appeared with the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Cockpit-in-Court
and at MICA.
His work as a director includes: Tara's Crossing (NYC - nominated
for a NY Innovative Theater Award); What You Will or Twelfth Night
(a transgender re-visioning of Shakespeare's play for Towson University);
henry 5: the warrior project (Towson); Cloud 9 (NHSI, Chicago)
and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Carver Center for the Arts, Baltimore)
Dedicated to theatre as a tool for social change and human development
he worked extensively in arts-in-education in New York City. As
a member of the Irondale Ensemble Project he taught interactive
workshops on various social issues and performed in the company's
professional season of theatre. He also taught extensively for
such companies as The Broadway Theatre Institute, Theatre for a
New Audience and ENACT, Inc. At Theatre for a New Audience he also
served as Education Associate, developing curricula using Shakespeare
to promote literacy in the public schools. As Program Director
for ENACT, Inc. (a company using drama therapy techniques to reach
emotionally handicapped and at-risk youth) he developed curricula,
trained teaching artists and cultivated new partnerships with NYC
schools.
Also, he has been on faculty at the Theatre Arts Division of Northwestern
University's National High School Institute every summer since
1997 where he teaches and directs.
He pursues scholarship at the intersection of activism and theater,
specifically around issues of human sexuality and identity. His
has presented this work at The Association for Theatre in Higher
Education, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, Towson's
Multicultural Conference and Susquehanna University's Diversity
Symposium. This is also reflected in his work as the Co-Chair of
Towson University's Committee on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender
Issues.
