SummerHillSeven’s Profile

Summer Hill Seven is the director of Platanos, Auction Block and the innovative and neoteric cinematic Poemedy – A Poet’s Pilgrimage - now viewable on YouTube. Summer is also an actor and has created roles for stage and screen. Most recently he was seen as Lincoln in Suzan-Lori Park’s TopDog/UnderDog directed by Walter Dallas and Booster in August Wilson’s Jitney directed by John Pryor in Miami. Finally, he is an author, frequent speaker and performance Poemedian. His first book, Notes of a Neurotic! is noteworthy for introducing the idea of Poemedy into the lexicon and is described as “bombastic” – “piercing” and “as poetic as Paul Laurence Dunbar”. His latest work Hang Time! is a poetic memoir about his journey to Artist from Attorney - described as “fiercely powerful” – “gifted” – “entertaining” and “thought provoking”. He is currently touring colleges with his opus and homage to Langston Hughes, Miguel Piñero and Amiri Baraka entitled: Shakespeare N. Haarlem

Education: BA – Richard Stockton College, NJ; JD – New York School of Law; MFA – University of Delaware (PTTP).

To contact and/or learn about his work visit: www.poemedy.com.