Biography of Steve Waters

Steve Waters lives in Cambridge and first started writing for the theatre while reading English at Oxford in the Eighties; was a teacher for much of the Nineties, including Head of Performing Arts at Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, and is currently Lecturer in Drama in the Education Faculty of Cambridge University. In 1992-3, he attended David Edgars Birmingham MA Playwrighting Course, where his first full length play UTOPIANS was directed by Terry Johnson. In 1996, he received a grant from the Arts Council of England as a writer of particular promise. His play ENGLISH JOURNEYS was produced at the Hampstead Theatre as part of their first New Directions Season; followed by AFTER THE GODS (also published by Faber & Faber). Other plays include THE GEOGRAPHY LESSON (2000), a monologue; LONDON BRIDGE (2000) for Paines Plough; THE DIAGNOSIS (2000), a one-act play for the NT Education Dept/Y Touring Science on Stage project; FLINT PEOPLE (2000) for the Tie Break Theatre Co; HABITATS (2002), a translation/adaptation of a new play by Philippe Minyana for the NT Studio Channels Season, read early 2002 in the Lyttelton Theatre as part of the Transformation Season, and was premiered at the Gate Theatre London in December 2002. Steve recently completed THE CULL (for Menagerie Theatre); his play WORLD MUSIC, was produced in Michael Grandages new play season in Sheffield in 2003 and will transfer to the Donmar Warehouse in London in spring 2004.