Steve Harper is a playwright and TV writer dedicated to exploring the “invisible things” that people are reluctant to talk about or explore (like race, culture, spirituality, religion, and sexuality). His plays include Princeton Theory, Black/Out Stories, Almost, The Escape Artist’s Children (Workshop at Celebration Theatre), Urban Rabbit Chronicles, and The Laundry Channel (Juilliard workshop). Short plays: How to Teach the Civil War, Like the End of the World (Chicago’s American Theatre Company – The Silver Project), Things are (Mostly) Crazy, This is Now (American Airlines Theatre - 24 Hour Plays ‘05), Actual Cost (Juilliard /100th Anniversary– published by The Kenyon Review Online), and Iggie Imagines Marriage (John Houseman Studio/Dreamcatcher Rep.). Readings and workshops include LMU New Play Workshop, Malibu Playhouse, Second Sundays, Classical Theatre of Harlem, New York Stage & Film, and New York Theatre Workshop. Short films include the comic spy drama Intelligence – screened at Dances With Films, and the supernatural comedy Betty on the Bed (also director, producer and actor). Steve writes for the ABC series American Crime and spent two seasons writing for the USA Network show Covert Affairs. He created SEND ME, an Emmy nominated original web series about time traveling black people (now on YouTube) that premiered on BET.com to 1.66 million views.
Steve Harper
Studios
Irving Fine
Steve Harper worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…