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STEVE HARPER |
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Nationality: African USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Creative Artists Agency CA |
STEVE HARPER is a staff writer on the USA Network show Covert Affairs. Short films include Betty on the Bed (also director, producer and actor) and Intelligence (directed by Phil Kaufmann - currently in production). He also created two radio pilots (co-written with Becky Ndosi): The Real Deal (Time Show & Space Show) for Sesame Workshop/WHYY. He was a 2010/2011 participant in the CBS Writers Mentoring Program. His plays include Black/Out Stories (Citizen Playwright - Freedom Train Productions - 2010), Urban Rabbit Chronicles (nominated for the Weissberger award 2009), The Escape Artist's Children (Winner New Professional Theatre's Writer Festival Grant (2009), almost not quite just about, and The Laundry Channel (Juilliard workshop 2004). Short plays: Like the End of the World (Chicago's American Theatre Company - The Silver Project 2010), Things are (Mostly) Crazy, This is Now (American Airlines Theatre - 24 Hour Plays 2005), First Encounter (Falcon Theatre / L.A. - NBC diversity showcase 2005), Actual Cost (Juilliard /100th Anniversary ('05) - 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/Naked Angels, New York Theatre Workshop, Tribeca Theatre Festival, Hilton Head Island New Play Festival. Steve is a graduate of Yale, The A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard and the playwriting program at Juilliard. Also an actor, Steve has appeared at major regional theatres (The Guthrie, Williamstown) on national television (90210, Rescue Me), in film (Chico & Rita, Dark September Rain), commercials and voice-overs. Awards include the Artistic Achievement Award from the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, the Millennium Telly Award, the Le Compte du Nouy prize at Juilliard (two-time recipient), a MacDowell Colony National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2007) and two Yaddo fellowships: the Skidmore Residency for Artists of Color (2006), and another in 2008.
Plays by Steve Harper
Abstract Purple | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fells Point Corner Theatre | 1994 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58814 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | When Rosa, a teenage run-away breaks into Mary's NYC apartment, she challenges (and ultimately inspires) the elderly woman - a painter who has lost her will to live. Their initial violent meeting precipitates Mary's greatest artistic work - but at what cost? | |||||
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Actual Cost | ||
| 1st Produced: | Juilliard (100th Anniversary) | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Kenyon Review Online, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58815 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | When bickering interracial couple B.T. and Iyana head to a wedding on the subway, they have no idea their relationship will be tested when Michael, a homeless black man, makes a pitch to them for funds. | |||||
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Black / Out Stories | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135426 | |||
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Genre: | full length play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A black writer explores his relationship with coming out while conducting a series of interviews with a diverse group of black gays and lesbians and navigating his relationship to his white partner. | |||||
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Bloomington Faces the God | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58816 | |||
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Brink of Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58817 | |||
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Genre: | full length Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | co-story and lyrics by Steve Harper; Book by Laura Ekstrand, Music by Oliver Lake | |||||
Synopsis: | A group of high-school seniors brave the challenges of the SAT, while navigating distraction, romance, and the joys and fears of an uncertain future. | |||||
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Escape Artist's Children | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58818 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Read and workshopped at The Tribeca Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, Jean Cocteau Rep and New York Stage and Film. | |||||
Synopsis: | When Grayson, an unemployed black attorney, struggles against an overwhelming depression due to the death of her father, and the fact that her brother is in a coma - even her girlfriend Angie and therapy don't seem to be providing the cure. She sees her father everywhere and talks to her comatose brother (and he talks back) constructing a history of her family that has elements of myth and reality in unsuccessful effort to break out of her mood. Running into Sheri -her ex from Law School - now married and straight, Grayson decides to pursues Sheri in the hopes of getting a kiss she just knows will magically make things right. In this comedy about family, power, slavery and freedom, Grayson negotiates love, mysticism, and mental health in a way we can all relate to. | |||||
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First Encounter | ||
| 1st Produced: | Falcon Theatre / NBC Diversity Showcase, LA | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58819 | |||
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Genre: | Short comedy (5 minutes) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Jessica and Bob are on a date. They seem perfect for each other. But why does he seem reluctant to tell her what he does for a living. | |||||
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Iggie Imagines Marriage | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54974 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Presented as part of the evening "Love, Hate, Friendship, Marriage". | |||||
Synopsis: | Just before Matthew is about to get married, Iggie, his best friend and best man, accidentally stops time - and admits to having feelings for Matthew. | |||||
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Laundry Channel | ||
| 1st Produced: | Juilliard (workshop) | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58820 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Laundry Channel follows Pool, a black TV producer who nervously consents to move in with his white partner, Clay and Clay's ten year old son, Mark. After moving in, Pool gets more nervous when he stumbles onto a bizarre cable channel, hosted by The Laundress, a white woman in a 50's dress, who's blindfolded, tied to a chair and spouting seemingly random laundry hints. Even more bizarre is the fact that only Pool can see her. As Pool anxiously investigates this supernatural mystery, TV images and history, race, homophobia and self-acceptance come into play in this surreal comedy. | |||||
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Oaksmith and the Holiday Spirit | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58821 | |||
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Things Are (Mostly) Crazy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58822 | |||
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This is Now | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Airlines Theatre, New York | 2005 | ||||
Company: | The 24 Hour Plays | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58823 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
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Notes: | This play, created for a benefit had an original cast that included Tracie Thoms, Margaret Colin, William Sadler, Hayden Christensen and Wilson Jermaine Heredia. | |||||
Synopsis: | When Grace arrives at the home of Tate (a famous author and father to her one-time boyfriend, Nick) to inform Tate of her true feelings for him, she is unaware that Nick and the ghost of Tate's wife Alice are also in the house. | |||||
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Urban Rabbit Chronicles | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87306 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | When black Manhattanites Ted, a pharmacist, and Karen, an editor, attend a flea market on the advice of Father MacKenzie, their marriage counselor, they buy a small wooden rabbit statue from a charismatic vendor. Strangely, just days after the purchase, Karen writes a complete novel, and Ted becomes convinced that she's possessed by the spirit of the statue. Karen claims Ted is delusional, but Ted fights to enlist his pharmacy assistant Rose, and Father MacKenzie in the battle to save his marriage and reclaim the soul of his wife. | |||||
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Wheelchair Pornography | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Spectral Sisters Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58824 | |||
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