Educational Background/Training
- BFA New York University Tisch School of the Arts
- New York University Artist In Residence Asian American Pacific Studies
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Teaching Artist
- Urban Word NYC
About the Artist/Ensemble
Regie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and later taking top prizes in three National Poetry Slams. Television credits include 2 seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, NPR’s Snap Judgement & MTV’s Free Your Mind. His work appears in over 30 anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, Spoken Word Revolution & The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Literary journal publications include Poetry, Bellevue Literary Review, poets.org & Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Mr. Cabico received the 2006 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers for his work teaching at-risk youth at Bellevue Hospital. As a theater artist he received three New York Innovative Theater Award Nominations for his work in Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind with a win for Best Performance Art Production The Kenyon Review recently named Regie Cabico the “Lady Gaga of Poetry” and he has been listed in BUST magazine’s 100 Men We Love. His solo play Godiva Dates & One Night Stands received critical acclaim at the 2013 Capital Fringe Festival. Mr. Cabico has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg and through Howard Zinn’s Portraits Project at NYU has performed with Stanley Tucci, Jesse Eisenberg & Lupe Fiasco. Mr. Cabico has received numerous fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and The DC Commission for the Arts & Humanities.
Educational Program Description
- HIGH WATTAGE: ELEMENTS OF THE SLAM POEM
- CHECK ONE (excerpt)
https://poets.org/poem/morning-after-election
Audiences
- College/University Students
- Adults