Steve is Chief Executive and Director of Programming for Watford Palace Theatre. Steve was Artistic Director at Soho Theatre until 2019 and prior to that he was Associate. He was also a Creative Associate at the Bush Theatre. He has directed workshops for the National Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Royal Court, The Royal Shakespeare Company with whom he is an Education Associate Practitioner, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Polka Theatre, York Theatre Royal, Bath Theatre Royal, Central School of Speech and Drama and East 15 School of Acting. He worked with Rupert Goold as an associate, transferring his production of Macbeth to Broadway. Steve trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, University of Glamorgan and has a BA Hons in Theatre (First Class).
Awards and Nominations
Musical Theatre Matters Award nomination forBest New Musical for Only The Brave at the Edinburgh Festival
His production of Madam Butterfly’s Child won Best Overall Production Award 2004 and Mad Margaret’s Revenge the Best New Play Award 2005 at the London One Act Theatre Festival.
List Of Productions
2023
PETER PAN | Adaptor & Director | Hall for Truro
2022
TREASURE ISLAND | Adaptor & Director | Hall for Truro
2021
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST | Adaptor & Director | Oxford Playhouse
ROBIN HOOD | Adaptor & Director | Oxford Playhouse
2019
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST | Adaptor & Director | Oxford Playhouse
2018
DICK WHITTINGTON & HIS CAT | Adaptor & Director | Oxford Playhouse
VULCAN 7 | Theatre Royal Bath
THE ONE | Soho Theatre
BLUEBERRY TOAST | Soho Theatre
2016
CINDERELLA | Oxford Playhouse
BITS OF ME ARE FALLING APART | Soho Theatre
ONLY THE BRAVE | Wales Millennium Centre
2015
ALADDIN | Adaptor & Director | Oxford Playhouse
FIRST LOVE IS THE REVOLUTION | Soho Theatre
DEATH OF A COMEDIAN | Soho Theatre in Co-Production with Lyric Belfast and Abbey Dublin
2014
THE ONE | Soho Theatre
I KISS YOUR HEART | Soho Theatre
2013
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS | Soho Theatre
ADDRESS UNKNOWN | Soho Theatre
PASTORAL | Soho Theatre
PREVIOUS THEATRE
FIT AND PROPER PEOPLE | Soho Theatre
THE TWENTY FOUR HOUR MUSICALS | Soho Theatre
THE BOY WHO FELL INTO A BOOK | Soho Theatre
UTOPIA | Soho Theatre
24 HOUR PLAYS (2011) | Old Vic Theatre
REALISM | Soho Theatre
MONGREL ISLAND | Soho Theatre
ALADDIN | Adaptor & Director | Lyric Hammersmith
MACBETH | Open Air Theatre, Regents Park
DICK WHITTINGTON | also co-writer | Lyric Hammersmith
THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF CABARET | Shoo Shoo Baby / Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
ARTURO UI | The Arts Educational School
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK | Lyric Hammersmith
LATE NIGHT GIMP FIGHT | Edinburgh Festival
EDWARD GANT’S AMAZING FEATS OF LONELINESS | Headlong Theatre
DIARY OF A WELSHCAKE | Southwold Theatre Festival
METROPOLIS | Theatre Royal Bath
ONLY THE BRAVE | George Square Theatre, Edinburgh Festival 2008
VINCENT RIVER | The Fish Partnership, Brits Off Broadway Festival, 59E59 Theaters, New York
FAUSTUS | Headlong Theatre
LOCK UP | Devised piece for NT Interact, Education Project, National Theatre
TEMPEST 2000 | Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
A DATE TO REMEMBER | Little London Theatre Company at the Soho Theatre Studio
MAD MARGARET’S REVENGE | London One Act Theatre Festival, Edinburgh Festival 2005
MADAM BUTTERFLY’S CHILD | Winner of Best Overall Production Award | Pleasance Theatre, Greenwich Festival, Hong Kong International Festival, London One Act Theatre Festival Edinburgh Festival
CALIBAN’S ISLAND | Touched Theatre, National tour and Edinburgh Festival 1997
97 – HILLSBOROUGH | Ugly Theatre, national tour and Edinburgh Festival 1996
GHETTO | Hertfordshire County Youth Theatre, Watford Palace Theatre
LITTLE NELL and IMAGES OF A LONELY POETS WAR | East 15 School of Acting
LUNCHTIME LOTTERY | Plush Productions, Covent Garden Studio at the Theatre Museum
FOR THE STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH
SLEEPING BEAUTY
MIRANDA’S MAGIC MIRROR
TINY TALES
FOR THE THEATRE ROYAL, PLYMOUTH
TEAM SPIRIT | and National Theatre
SK8 – A HIP HOP MUSICAL
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