Steven McElroy

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Steven McElroy
Born (1966-12-30) December 30, 1966 (age 57)

Steven E. McElroy (born December 30, 1966) is an American director, actor, teacher and writer.

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Education and career highlights

McElroy, a Providence, Rhode Island native, graduated with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and English Literature from Brown University [1] in 1988 and received his M.F.A. from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival [2]

In the late 1990s, McElroy was artistic director of Sensurround, Inc., where he directed Lynn Siefert's Coyote Ugly and Little Egypt as well as his own adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies . From 1998 to 2002, he was artistic director of The New Ensemble Theatre Co., Inc. [3] (TNE) in New York City. He has been a member of Emerging Artists Theatre Co. (EAT) since 2001, [1] and is also a member of LITE (Laboratory for International Theatre Exchange). [4]

McElroy also writes for the daily Culture [5] pages and weekly Arts and Leisure [6] sections of The New York Times , and The New York Times on the Web. [7]

Directing credits

Emerging Artists Theatre Co. (EAT) [8]

Laboratory for International Theatre Exchange (LITE)/Chekov Now!

2004

The New Ensemble Theatre Co., Inc. (TNE)

  • Mike Nuckols, And The Skies Were Opened
  • Ron Owens, Pig
  • Paul Angelo Viggiano, Hostage
  • (adapted by Steven McElroy) V: The Life of Henry Plantagenet
  • Tom Noonan, What Happened Was…
  • Bash Halow, Inertia (includes Forward Motion Matters and Roller Coasting With Fabio)

The Producers' Club

Sensurround, Inc.

1999

size ate productions and Emerging Artists Theatre Co.

2005

Spotlight ON Productions

2002

Wings Theatre Company

Others

1995

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Acting credits

Stage

1980's

1998

1999

2000

Film

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Writing credits

Journalism

Selected

Plays

Adaptations

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Steven McElroy - EAT profile page
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 TNE program for Hamlet, 1999
  3. The New Ensemble Theatre Co., Inc. (TNE) website Accessed 17 March 2007.
  4. The LITE Company website
  5. McElroy, Steven. "The Comedy Is Restoration, but the Sex Is Timeless." The New York Times, 7 March 2006.
  6. McElroy, Steven. "MyTheater, Seeking Friends." The New York Times, 4 March 2007.
  7. McElroy, Steven. "Da Vinci Code Banned in Iran." The New York Times on the Web, 26 July 2006.
  8. EAT - Emerging Artists Theatre website
  9. 1 2 3 4 Wings Theatre Company presents Beyond Christopher Street website Archived 2007-03-20 at the Wayback Machine
  10. LITE/Chekhov Now! webpage
  11. 1 2 TNE program for Romeo and Juliet, 1998
  12. Margaux Laskey - Size.Ate website Archived 2007-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
  13. Krivohlavek, Amy. "Swiping Sizes." Off-Off Online, 5 November 2005. Accessed 17 March 2007.
  14. 1 2 TNE program for Pig, 2000
  15. Brown University Theatre, Speech and Dance Department - Playbills
  16. 1 2 LITE: Archives
  17. Halpern, Julie. “Shakespeare at 78 rpm.” Off-Off Broadway Reviews 7:30, 2001. Accessed 17 March 2007.