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Bio

Author of Squircular: An Actor’s Tale, filmmaker, father & entertainment entrepreneur.

Owner of www.squircular.com, poemedy.com, summerhill7.com, akbartalent.com and founder of the Poemedy Institute, located in Florida.

IG/ the_poemedy_institute
IG/ squircular_poemedy
IG/ film.poemedy

Agent/ActorReel: summerhill7.com

My philosophy of acting and thus life transcends anything that resembles philosophy. It is now about what I do and not merely what I think. I experience happiness with a smile. I experience thought with a word. I experience life with action. I act therefore I am!
- Summer Hill Seven, Squircular! An Actor’s Tale

About the Author
Summer Hill Seven is an iconoclastic and innovative performer, hip-hop theatrical artist, theatre and film director, and educator who has interpreted the works of Shakespeare, Shaw, Hughes, Douglas, Holder, Wilson, Parks, Fuller, et. al., at some of the country's greatest venues.

As a Poemedian, Seven has performed at New York's Lincoln Center, the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts, the Byron Carlyle Theatre (Miami Beach, FL), the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Asolo (Sarasota, FL), the National Black Theatre (Harlem, NY), Nuyorican Poetry Caf, Bowery Poetry Club, Miami's Literary Caf, and the Afrikan Poetry Theatre. Seven continues to tour Poemedy in the US and abroad.

Summer Hill Seven is a distinguished alumni of Sister Clara Muhammad School (Philadelphia, PA), Richard Stockton College (Honors), Princeton University, New York University School of Law and the University of Delaware's Professional Theater Training Program. He was the National Director of Community Service for the National Black Law Students Association and a Legal Aid Attorney for the Essex-Newark Legal Services of New Jersey.

As a director, in June of 2010 his directorial debut, Platanos & Collard Greens (Audelco Award), began its eighth consecutive year off Broadway in NYC. Currently, he is developing and directing several projects for both stage and film.