Regie Cabico
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. Mr. Cabico is on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Teaching Artist Roster Over the last decade, Mr. Cabico has delivered spoken word and theater arts residencies through The DC Commission for the Arts, Kundiman, Banff Arts Center & is a former NYU Asian Pacific American Studies Artist in Residence. Mr. Cabico received the 2006 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers for his work teaching at-risk youth at Bellevue Hospital. His work appears in over 30 anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets CafĂ©, Spoken Word Revolution & The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. 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. He 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.