BIOGRAPHY
Steven Michael Harper
Steven Michael Harper has been seen on the New York stage in Welcome To Arroyo's (Summer Play Festival), Women War Comedy (Theatre for the New City), the Drama Desk-nominated revival of Lost In the Stars (York Theatre Company), and The Roads to Home (78th Street Theatre Lab). Regional work includes Much Ado About Nothing (with T.R. Knight) at the Guthrie Theatre, Six Degrees of Separation (opposite Mary Beth Hurt) with The Peterborough Players, The Three Sisters (with Christopher Walken) at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Shear Madness at The Kennedy Center, and Gun Shy at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, as well as Alice in Bed (U.S. Premiere) and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari at the American Repertory Theater. On television he has been seen on Rescue Me, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Monsters, America's Most Wanted, Homicide, and All My Children (recurring). His work on the Baltimore kids' show The Fox-45 Clubhouse (co-host/co-writer/co-producer) earned him a Classic Telly Award. Film work includes Betty on the Bed (also director & writer) Howard, Zoo, 1775, and Dark September Rain. Steve has also been seen in national & regional commercials and over 60 corporate films and presentations. His writing credits include the plays First Encounter (NBC/L.A.), This is Now (24-hour plays on Broadway), Actual Cost (Juilliard 100th), The Laundry Channel (Juilliard workshop), Wheelchair Pornography (Spectral Sisters Prods), and Iggie Imagines Marriage (John Houseman Studio/Dreamcatcher Rep). Readings and workshops: New York Theatre Workshop, Tribeca Theatre Festival, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. Film & TV writing: The martial arts film Undefeatable (co-writer), co-writing the pilots for the children's radio show The Real Deal (Sesame Workshop/WHYY). Awards: Skidmore Residency for Artists of Color at Yaddo, Artistic Achievement Award Afro-Am at Yale. Steve holds a BA from Yale, and is a graduate of the acting program at the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University and of the playwriting program at Juilliard.