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.