Steven is a Director and Acting Teacher who studied with Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen and Zoe Caldwell. He is a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City where he later was invited to train as a teacher of the Meisner technique.
In addition to being a guest teacher and director at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, Steven is the founder and director of MEISNER INTERNATIONAL, currently teaching workshops in New York, Atlanta, Ft. Myers, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Barcelona, Lisbon, Helsinki, Warsaw, Vilnius, Tallinn, Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Quito, Guayaquil and Bogota.
As an actor, Steven worked with many great artists such as Al Pacino, Arthur Miller, Tony Randall, Ron Rifkin, Sam Waterston, Diane Wiest, Blythe Danner and more.
Steven recently directed the Vienna Premier of Cock by Mike Bartlett which had a sold-out run in January & February 2024 at the Off Theatre Vienna (www.cockfightvienna.at). Before that he directed Al Tapper’s new play Bettinger's Luggage which had a 6 week run Off-Broadway at the AMT Theater in NYC. He also directed a reading of Brian Richard Mori's new play Coming Attractions produced by Dan Lauria at Theatre 555 starring Richard Masur and the Florida premiere of How to Transcend A Happy Marriage by Sarah Ruhl. Steven is the Executive Producer of the short film Hard Work directed by Julie Pacino.
He directed the OFF THE PAGE Reading Series for Tony Randall’s National Actors Theatre in NYC (2005-2008) with such notable productions as: The Night Of The Iguana with Alec Baldwin, Golf with Alan Shepard with Jack Klugman, Charles Durning, Len Cariou and John Cullum and Ladies In Retirement with Rosemarry Harris and Marian Seldes.
Steven has directed many productions in New York working with such notable playwrights as Robert Askins, James McClure, Bruce Jay Friedman, Albert Bermel, Jack Gilhooley, Gail Sheehy and with notable actors as Marian Seldes, Brian Murray, Dana Ivey, Dan Lauria, John Pankow, Richard Bey, Brian Geraghty and many more.
He was the Co-Director of the Workshop at the Neighborhood Playhouse (1999-2003) where he directed over 20 new plays and was the Artistic Director of the Neighborhood Theatre Company in Naples, Florida (2003-2005) where he directed The Syringa Tree which ran for two seasons. He was a Founding director of the A-Train Plays in NYC (written and performed in 24 hours) where he directed The Casseroles of Far Rockaway by Seth Bauer – winner of the 2004 Samuel French Festival.
He is married to actress Tamara Flannagan and resides in Manhattan with their two boys Callan and Jace.