Filmmaker/Theatermaker - SEviiEN

Filmmaker/Theatermaker
SEviiEN: Nobody Knows My Name?
Where does the actor end and the character begin? In this theatrical presentation we are treated to rare look inside the mind and work of a poetic film and theater maker.
After the September 11th, 2001 World Trade Center Disaster, Summer Hill Seven dropped out of Law School and pursued his dream of becoming a poet. But he was already a lawyer so he ran for the Presidency of the United States. When he lost to George W. Bush he decided to use his keen legal mind to argue political issues in a poetic fashion. Fact or fiction – does it matter if nobody knows your name? Written by a graduate of the New York University School of Law and former practicing attorney in California and New Jersey. SEviiEN challenges popular public policy views like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, poverty, race relations and includes independent and avante garde films all presented with a dynamic balance of comedy, poetry and reality.

Written & Directed: Summer Hill Seven.

Featuring: Sevîn Ákbar.

The films included:
A Poet’s Pilgrimage, a short film about a law student who decides to leave law school after the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 to pursue his dream of becoming a poet.
Jack 4 President, a satirical film about a fictionalized presidential campaign running against George W. Bush in his re-election bid in which the Iraqi War and the WMD’s are the fundamental campaign issue. If you believe the current administration you should not have any difficulty believing the platform of Jack and the Beanstalk Party.
The Summer Hill Seven Story, a feature length poetic mockumentary about the poet’s work that is in close competition with his real life drama.

SEviiEN is brilliant. Exciting!
Laurence Holder, author Renaissance Solos.

SEviiEN is powerfully funny & provocative.
David Lamb, Platanos & Collard Greens



Writer/Performer

Shakespeare N. Haarlem



A Latino Muslim contemporary spoken word artist, Shakespeare N. Haarlem, is sentenced to death for lyrical terrorism (a new crime) and four poetic and prophetic figures come to his aid: Langston Hughes, Jessy B. Simple, Reverend Lution and Summer Hill Seven. A poemedy (poetic comedy) in which the author pushes the envelope on the hip-hop theater and spoken word genre by asking us to consider whether there are limits to poetic speech. As with much of contemporary poetry the form of delivery is as significant as the content itself.
Written/Performed by: Summer Hill Seven.
Directed by: John Lisbon Wood
Featured at Off-Broadway venues (including): Producer's Club, Nuyorican Poet's Café, Bowery Poetry Club, Afrikan Poetry Theater, Langston Hughes Library and Cultural Center.
This Program is available both as a live stage performance and a quality film version.
I highly recommend it to all who appreciate the spoken and written word.

Sekou Molefi Baako,Executive Director,
Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center-Queens Public Library
President, Black Caucus of the American Library Association

Summer Hill Seven is an exceptionally gifted writer and performer whose work is both entertaining and thought provoking.

Sanford Robbins
Director, Professional Theatre Training Program
University of Delaware

Summer Hill Seven’s ebullient “neo-beat-hip-hop” verse explodes from the page to the stage with a powerful multicultural message! Delightful!

Phil Hubbard,
Chair of Performance Studies Department
University of Nevada Las Vegas

This five character play was the first major play that I ever wrote. Before this play I wrote most of my book - notes of a neurotic - and two other significant plays that this play ultimately evolved into. My writing is a result of two major factors - my association with literally many of the greatest minds that my generation has ever produced and my rebelliousness - which began to manifest itself at birth. Both factors come together most acutely in my past romantic relationships with women which began at age five and have fortunately not yet defeated my rebelliousness.