Bio

Steven Haworth is an award-winning playwright living in New York. HIs plays have been performed in New York, across the country, Korea, and New Zealand.

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Steven Haworth was Writer-in-Residence at the 2018 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference working on his play Monkey in the Shade, which was also included in the PlayLab Series at The Great Plains Theatre Conference 2019, and a finalist for the Ashland New Play Festival. He wrote Fernando which opened the Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival 2017 at the New Ohio Theatre (New York), was also a winner of the Ashland New Play Festival, the First Look Festival in Los Angeles, and is published by Next Stage Press. Four New Years in Japan won the Jury Prize in the Think Fast Festival in March 2019 and is published in Applause Publications Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2020. He was commissioned to write [home] or The Quest for the Lost Tablet of Ur for Zoo District in Los Angeles that received five LA Weekly, a Garland, and Ovation award nominations. Steven was also commissioned to freely adapt Mikail Bulgakov’s Flight for the Open Fist Theatre. In New York Little Fishes was produced off-Broadway by Abingdon Theatre and is published be Next Stage Press, Other New York productions include Dark Age (starring Richard Schiff) by Project III Ensemble Theatre, and The White Cave by Jesco Productions. Time and Tony Oliva, commissioned for the Seventh Inning Stretch at Mile Square Theatre, appears in the Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2017/18 published by Smith and Kraus. The Other Genius was a winner of the NEWvember Festival and the Long Beach New Play Festival and is published by Next Stage Press. In New Zealand he was one of four playwrights contributing to The Big Kahuna Project directed by Christine Sang. Blue/Whitney was a winner of Stage Left Theatre’s 10th Leapfest New Play Festival in Chicago. Steven was a founding member and Associate Artistic Director of the Project III Ensemble Theatre in residence at the Ohio Theatre, Soho, NYC, where he wrote Dark Age, directed The Grand Ceremonial, and performed in many productions. As an actor he has performed in New York, Los Angeles, and regional theatre, and did voice work on two documentaries, The Millionaires Unit, and The Lafayette Escadrille. MFA in playwriting from Carnegie Mellon University

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