Stephen Fife

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Playwright, Screenwriter, Actor, Author, Director, Dramaturge, Script Consultant, Theatre Director and Voice Actor

Santa Monica, California

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July 2016

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About Stephen

His screenplay IN THE MOOD is being produced by Fable Entertainment, Yuval Shrem directing,. Steve adapted the screenplay from his play of the same name.

Fable Entertainment also holds the rights to Steve's screenplays BLUE KISS (teen drama) and SIZZLE SIZZLE (comedic coming-of-age story). Yuval Shrem of Fable Ent has filmed Steve's play FUN WITH FREUD and plans to release it on Amazon Prime in late April.

He has been the Writer-in-Residence at the Ark Theatre Company in North Hollywood. Steve directed a filming of the stage version of his BLUE KISS, which will be available on the Ark Theatre website in March.

His plays SAVAGE WORLD, BREAK OF DAY and THIS IS NOT WHAT I ORDERED have been published by Samuel French. Other plays include Sizzle Sizzle, Blue Kiss, The Kitchen Girl, Scattered Blossoms, FutureSex, The Shadow Man, Ghost Farm and The American Wife (with Ralph Pezzullo). His adaptation of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance was produced Off-Broadway by the Jewish Repertory Theatre, where it received 17 rave reviews and has been performed all over the world. He has written the book and lyrics for Charming, Young Forever, Isabella in Oz and The Buzz Snapshot Holiday Show.

Cune Press has published his memoirs THE 13TH BOY (featured in People Magazine and The Huffington Post) and BEST REVENGE: How the Theatre Saved My Life and Has Been Killing Me Ever Since, as well as his two books of poetry, Dreaming in the Maze of Love-Grief-Madness and Twisted Hipster. He has been the recipient of a Federal Poetry Grant. His articles and essays on Theater have appeared in The New York Times “Arts & Leisure” section, Village Voice and New Republic and American Theatre (among others), and he’s edited several volumes of monologues and scenes for Applause Books.

A graduate of Horace Mann H.S., Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University’s School of the Arts (MFA), Steve was the first literary manager for Primary Stages Company in New York City. He has written screenplay adaptations of his plays Blue Kiss and Sizzle Sizzle, and of his memoir The 13th Boy. He has also written two original screenplays, The Falling Man (which has received several awards) and The Big Dog Rules (with Ralph Pezzullo). He’s currently based in the Los Angeles area. See for more info.

Unique traits: I was the only journalist to meet with boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter in max prison after his reconviction. have taught writing workshops in New York City schools, especially Satellite schools. have also worked with the elderly, collecting oral histories. have had 12 books published. Have expertise in writing both fiction and nonfiction, writing character-based dialogue, writing for film, stage and print. Have adapted stories and novels for stage and screen.

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 10"

Weight:
180

Body type:
Average

Hair:
Shoulder Length

Hair color:
Grey

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Other

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FALLING MASKS Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Thriller Just prior to the pandemic, an architect is forced to confront a tragic incident in his past when he gets the commission to build a dreamhouse on a cliff for a famous female suspense author
BLUE KISS Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Family A 17 year old high school student starts writing poetry to recover from her parents’ death in a murder-suicide; when everything falls apart for her, though, she makes a radical decision in the name of ‘truth” that could have drastic consequences.
THE 13th BOY Budget: $1M - $5M | Crime ⋄ Drama Adaptation of my memoir about a prize student at an elite New York City prep school in the 1970s whose trust in a revered writing teacher leads him down a very dark path of sexual abuse and loss of identity. This is crossed with events 40 years later when 30 former students at the school give Victim Impact Statements about how the abuse they've suffered there has impacted their lives.
IN THE MOOD Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Comedy Stuart and Linda are modern lovers, urban professionals who are bored by their work and are looking for some kind of meaning in each other. Then there's Raimondo, their waiter. He has already found what he believes in, and it will affect the lovers in ways they could not have predicted.
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Budget: $100K - $1M | Other ⋄ Historical The complex and intense friendship of three 15 year old boys at a New England boarding school in 1973 undergoes many changes when they compete for the approval of a brilliant but manipulative teacher.
KANO Budget: $100K - $1M | Action ⋄ Historical A 16 year old Philippine boy and his 20 year old sister are saved from a sadistic whoremaster by a valiant Marine, who takes them back to his home in Omaha, Nebraska. But have they simply exchanged one deadly situation for another?
BIG DOG RULES Budget: $1M - $5M | Adventure ⋄ Crime Max Berry, 30, is a great ballroom dancer and teacher in Washington DC with aspirations of being a great investigative reporter. After a few false starts, he stumbles on to a huge conspiracy within the Drug Enforcement Agency, and he hangs on for dear life, no matter how much trouble it brings him... or how big a dog. Co-written with Ralph Pezzullo.