Steven Vlasak

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Screenwriter, Producer, Playwright, Script Consultant, Story Analyst, Dramaturge, Author, Production Manager and Theatrical Producer

Hollywood, California

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About Steven

A Los Angeles native, Steven Vlasak has devoted his career to creating, and helping others create, compelling and emotional stories for film, television and stage, working for Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning production companies both here and abroad.

As a manager at Industry Entertainment, the company behind AMC’s "Mad Men", and that produced Showtime’s "Masters of Horror", ABC’s "Masters of Science Fiction" (with Stephen Hawking), NBC’s "Fear Itself", and ABC’s "Hope & Faith", along with the feature films "Requiem for a Dream", Spike Lee’s "25th Hour", "Quills", "The Player", "The Fountain" (with Hugh Jackman) and "North Country" (with Charlize Theron), Steven supervised all physical operations for the company, as well as their in-house programs which foster and train the next generation of Hollywood writers, producers and managers.

Prior to that, after studying screenwriting at UCLA, and receiving praise and awards for his own writing, Steven worked freelance to analyze and develop screenplays for most major agencies in Los Angeles, including CAA, Gersh, ICM, WME and UTA. Concurrently, Steven was asked to serve on the Board of Directors for the world’s largest non-profit screenwriters support group, The Scriptwriters Network, where he oversaw the prestigious Carl Sautter Memorial Scriptwriting Competition for Film and Television.

After moving to Australia for two years in 1999, Steven was employed first by the Pacific Film and Television Commission (now Screen Queensland) analyzing scripts and advising producers for subsidy funding at the company that developed Fox’s "Terra Nova", and the feature films "Nim’s Island", Terrence Malick’s "The Thin Red Line", and Warner Bros "Scooby-Doo" and "Ghost Ship." He was then recruited by Fox Studios in Sydney, where he worked during the filming of "Mission Impossible 2", "Moulin Rouge", and "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones."

After returning to the states, Steven served on the Los Angeles Public Library’s High School Fellowship Program where he mentored high school writers in a yearly nine-month screenwriting curriculum, culminating with productions staged at the library’s Mark Taper Auditorium. While working on his own projects, including directing and producing a couple of music videos, writing narration for national parks videos, and writing and pitching a dozen original screenplays and teleplays, Steven also worked as a manager for many high profile events providing multi-media concepts and show elements for themed environments at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier, Universal Studios and CityWalk, Dodger Stadium, and fan fests for several Super Bowls, the 2000 Olympic Games, the World Cup Soccer Finals, and the America’s Cup yacht races.

Steven is also a long-time collaborator with multi-Grammy Award-nominated composer David Arkenstone for a variety of music-based projects. Steven wrote the book and lyrics for the new stage musical "La Joconde!" about the true but little known theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911, and which recently received a developmental presentation at the NoHo Arts Center Theater. Steven also penned the aquatic fantasy novelette "Loveren," upon which David’s most recent concept album is based, and which received international acclaim. He and Arkenstone have also composed and recorded a modern opera, "The Fall of Atlantis," along with a concerto with spoken word based on Steven’s epic poem "Alternating Currents: The Life of the Los Angeles River" featuring award-winning actress Alfre Woodard. Steven was also the Associate Producer for David Arkenstone’s Symphonic Adventure, a lavish multi-media Cirque concert special, filmed at the Alex Theatre in Pasadena, currently airing across the country on PBS. Steven more recently worked as the Production Manager for Arkenstone’s Winter Fantasy holiday concert series which toured the country throughout last December, culminating with two sold-out shows with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra. He will again associate produce and stage manage this popular festive show this year.

Steven is also the head of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Dorothy Parker Literary Society, which focuses on the noted author’s hilarious and heartbreaking short stories and poems, along with her significant contributions as a screenwriter during Hollywood’s Golden Age. Steven’s new stage comedy, “Nights at the Algonquin Round Table” about Parker and her fellow Roaring 20’s Round Table wits opened to sold-out shows and rave reviews as part of 2017’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, and went on to win several awards.

Unique traits: Available for consultations and feedback, collaborations, adaptations, research, work-for-hire, coverage, production management and all-around general help with your next screenplay, pilot, treatment, completed project, stage play (including musicals and concerts), entertainment panel, or themed event. stevlasak@gmail.com

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Girl of My Dreams (2017)
Film (Short) Miscellaneous Crew Edward Watson has been looking for something that can change his life. His challenge is to find what needs to change. Tonight he will search for answers in the most vast place anyone can explore, his own mind.
The Greeter (2015)
Film (Documentary and Biography) Producer The Greeter Documentary celebrates 125 years of greeting in Laguna Beach, CA. This film explores the history of this tradition and the unique characters who have carried the torch over the past century, spreading joy, love and goodwill from the street corners of their beautiful beach-side city. The film asks four basic questions; what do we know about the Greeters? why do they do it? who benefits from what they do? and finally, what is it about Laguna Beach that we would have such a tradition of friendliness and acceptance? The answers are as diverse as the people interviewed, yet each person returns to the common themes of love, acceptance, tolerance and joy. The Greeter is here to brighten your day! Relax and enjoy it!
Fear Itself (2008 - 2009)
Television (Horror) Miscellaneous Crew A television series broken down into thirteen separate sixty-minute films from premiere horror writers and directors.
Masters of Science Fiction (2007)
Television (Drama and Sci-Fi) Miscellaneous Crew A series adapting science fiction stories by well-known authors into sixty-minute episodes, introduced by renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. Stories filmed, included those of science fiction authors Robert Heinlein and Robert Sheckley, historical novelist Howard Fast, and mystery novelist Walter Mosley. Written by David Stevens
Masters of Horror (2005 - 2007)
Television (Horror) Miscellaneous Crew Anchor Bay has amassed some of the greatest horror film writers and directors to bring to you the anthology series, "Masters of Horror". For the first time, the foremost names in the horror film genre have joined forces for the series consisting of thirteen one-hour films each season.
Myths and Legends (2007)
Video (Music) Producer Myths and Legends is a musical journey composed by three-time Grammy nominee, David Arkenstone. Presented are nine video accompaniments to songs that take the audience from one end of the imagination to the other. Among them are, Song of Sheherazade which tells the story of how a newlywed Queen must weave tales for her King to make him love her. Oceanus, which transports the audience to a lost city of ancient Gods below the ocean, El Dorado gives a first person perspective of Spanish treasure hunters to the lost city of gold. WolfsHead is a musical adventure in the forest of Sherwood and Temple of Isis follows an Archeologist through a journey of light and magic. Written by Anonymous

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Awards

Producers Encore! Award - Nights at the Algonquin Round Table
Winner Carl Sautter Scriptwriting Competition for Film and Television - Tea Party