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STEVE KARP

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STEVE KARP is a New York-based playwright. His writing includes a diverse assortment of plays that are full-length and short, contemporary and period, dramatic and comedic:

  • WHEN WE WERE YOUNG
  • THE TOOLS OF IGNORANCE
  • FRATERNITY
  • THE FAMILY STEERING COMMITTEE
  • THE WAREHOUSE
  • IN RE: RADDING v GLAZER
  • RUBBAS
  • THERE’S A TRAFFIC JAM IN THE LADIES ROOM

Karp’s diversification of experience as an actor, director, filmmaker, and founding/producing director of the Stamford Theatre Works has helped to feed his ambition to explore subjects of personal dramatic interest with enthusiasm, dedication, and determination.

  • Steve Karp & Lee Richardson
    American Shakespeare Theatre Stratford, Connecticut

Ten years into an acting career that included Broadway (The Changing Room: Drama Critics Award for “Best Play”, Herzl), Lincoln Center (Shakespeare’s Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Off-Broadway (The Public Theatre, The Light Opera of Manhattan), and Regional Theater (Long Wharf, The American Shakespeare Theatre), a desire to make his own dramatic statements emerged.

Karp formed an independent production company to produce three short films – THE TENNIS LESSON, THE JOGGER, and THE TENNIS MATCH – which he wrote and directed, and which achieved international commercial success and film festival honors through their world-wide distribution by Columbia Pictures.

Returning to the theater as Founder/Producing Director of the Stamford Theatre Works (Stamford, Connecticut), Karp produced nearly 100 Equity productions, including an annual Black History Month Celebration, an annual Great American Composer Series, The Purple Cow Children’s Theatre, and STW’s School for the Performing Arts.

Karp directed nearly half of Stamford Theatre Works’ full productions.

In 1992, Karp was honored by the Connecticut Critics Circle for his “Outstanding Direction of a Play” for his direction of A FEW GOOD MEN at the Westport Country Playhouse.

In 1997, Karp was honored by the Connecticut Critics Circle with its highest award for his “Outstanding Contribution to Connecticut Theatre.”

Karp is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America (DGA), New Play Exchange/National New Play Network, the Society for Directors & Choreographers (SDC), Actors Equity Association (AEA), and SAG-AFTRA.

He is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Tufts University, and the Loomis Chaffee School.

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