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Stephen

Son, never listen to a priest or a policeman...the only thing they have is the key to the shithouse.

About Me

I'm a playwright and the Literary Manager for Barefoot Theater Company. I'm also a "Freelance Educator" who teaches various English classes and workshops at Brooklyn College.
Plays:
"Complete Control" Directed by Mike LoPorto at The DUMBO Theater Exchange in Brooklyn NY, July 2000.
"Waving and Drowning" Directed by Michael LoPorto and Francisco Solorzano for The DUMBO Arts Festival in Brooklyn NY, July 2000.
"Subway Series" and "Fast Food Strategies" Read as part of a "New Works Festival" at The Producers Club in Manhattan, 2001
"And a Wig Full of Spiders" Produced as part of the "Gone in 60 Seconds" festival at the Harrogate Theater in North Yorkshire UK, 2005
"The Hunger Arts" Directed by Michael LoPorto for the "Briefs" festival at the Makor Theater, Manhattan, 2006
"Next" Directed by Michael LoPorto and read at Barefoot Theater's first instalment of its "Absinthe Reading Series" at the Lit Lounge, Manhattan, 2007
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Artists, writers, musicians...anyone who doesn't fit.

Music:

The Clash, The Saints, Stiff Little Fingers, Bad Brains, The Jam, Funkstorung, Haujobb, Larvae, Appliance, Pigface, Psychic TV, Gridlock, Squarepusher, Needle Sharing, Prefuse 73, Anticon, Negative Approach, The Pogues, Nick Cave, 16 Horsepower, Barry Adamson, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Dischord, Atari Teenage Riot, Cobra Killer, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Jon Langford, The Mekons, Jay Munly, Scott Walker, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson

Movies:

Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Magnolia, Jeffery, Tombstone, State of Grace, Blue Velvet, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Harold and Maude, Night of the Hunter

Television:

Deadwood, Carnivale, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Queer as Folk, The Simpsons, Penn & Teller's Bullshit

Books:

Gravity's Rainbow, As I Lay Dying , And the Ass Saw the Angel, Cosmic Trigger II, Right Where You're Sitting Now, True Hallucinations, The Book of Lies, Feast of Snakes, Slaughtermatic, Digital Leatherette, Sirens of Titan, Please Kill Me

My Blog

Editing (A Screaming Comes Across the Sky....)

After driving myself crazy working out regional accents, going so far as to write out things like "South Midland" and "ooo", "ow", "aw" all over the script, I read this in Thomas Pynchon's introductio...
Posted by Stephen on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:13:00 PST

Editing (Accents in Next)

I have now begun combing through the dialogue and reworking words so that they match the regional dialects. I am awash in diphthongs and nasalization.
Posted by Stephen on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 06:03:00 PST

Next (Reading)

In early January, we had a reading of Next at Lit Lounge. Next has my largest cast to date (15) and is based on the song "Au Suivant" by Jacques Brel; it features a group of U.S. soldiers waiting in l...
Posted by Stephen on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:02:00 PST

The Hunger Arts

"The Hunger Arts" was without a doubt my most theatrical piece up until that point. It was presented in an unfinished form, lacking important background information and a third character, but I think ...
Posted by Stephen on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:35:00 PST

Fast Food Strategies

In the summer of 2001, two British teens who had tortured and murdered a three year old boy eight years prior were being released from jail. I couldn't help but think about these now 18 year olds retu...
Posted by Stephen on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:35:00 PST

Subway Series

"Subway Series" was written after I read Barry Gifford's "Hotel Trilogy". This short play in three scenes was inspired by Gifford's trilogy even though only one of my scenes ended up being set in a ho...
Posted by Stephen on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:10:00 PST

Waving and Drowning

Produced a couple of months after "Complete Control", "Waving and Drowning" was a short play (approximately 25 minutes) and was written to be Barefoot's entry in the DUMBO Arts Festival. I wrote this ...
Posted by Stephen on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:37:00 PST

Complete Control

Produced in the Summer of 2000, Complete Control was the first play I ever wrote, and it came together as a script between spring and early summer of that year. I was approached by Michael LoPorto aft...
Posted by Stephen on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:16:00 PST

First Blog Post

I've decided to use this thing to write about writing. My first few posts will be about some old productions: the writing, the performance, the reactions.I need to keep better track of these experienc...
Posted by Stephen on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:37:00 PST