| |
WRITING
Upcoming:
Working on a new musical The
Truth About Magic (working title) with composer Wendy
Fang Chen and lyricist Jane Landers.
Creative Highlights:
My new play Urban Rabbit Chronicles has been nominated
for the Weissberger Award.
Seeing my work performed at the American Airlines Theatre.
Working on my play The Escape Artist's Children with
Pam MacKinnon and a great cast at New York State & Film.
Bio:
STEVE HARPER's plays include Urban Rabbit Chronicles,
The Escape Artist's Children, almost not quite
just about, The Laundry Channel (Juilliard workshop),
Wheelchair Pornography (Spectral Sisters Productions),
and the musical Brink of Life (co-story and lyrics)
(Dreamcatcher Rep). Short pieces: Things are (Mostly)
Crazy, This is Now (American Airlines Theatre
- 24 Hour Plays), First Encounter (Falcon Theatre
/ L.A. - NBC diversity showcase), Actual Cost (Juilliard
/100th Anniversary - published by The Kenyon Review Online),
Iggie Imagines Marriage (John Houseman Studio/Dreamcatcher
Rep.), and Abstract Purple (Baltimore Playwrights
Festival). Readings and workshops: New York Stage & Film,
Summer Play Festival (NY), New York Theatre Workshop, Tribeca
Theatre Festival, Jean Cocteau Rep, The Schomberg Center,
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, The Round House Theatre,
and The Playwrights Forum. Work in other media includes the
short film Betty on the Bed (also director, producer
and actor), the martial arts feature Undefeatable
for Polygram Video (co-written with Robert Vassar), and a
radio pilot (co-written with Becky Ndosi): The Real Deal
for Sesame Workshop. Articles include pieces for The Juilliard
Journal and Pulse Magazine. Steve is a graduate
of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at
the Juilliard School. Awards: two-time recipient of the Le
Compte du Nouy prize, a MacDowell Colony NEA fellowship and
two Yaddo fellowships including the Skidmore Residency for
Artists of Color at Yaddo. |
 |