Steve Cosson
STEVE COSSON is the founding Artistic Director of The Civilians, a New York based company dedicated to creating original theater from creative investigations into real life. Cosson has co-written and directed the majority of the company's plays which have been produced Off-Broadway at theaters including The Public Theater, The Vineyard and Barrow Street Theater among others; Regionally at Center Theatre Group (Mark Taper Forum), La Jolla Playhouse, A.R.T., Actors Theatre of Louisville, HBO's US Comedy Festival and others; and internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe, London's Gate Theatre and Soho Theatre. His plays with the company include Brooklyn at Eye Level, This Beautiful City, Paris Commune, (I Am) Nobody's Lunch (Fringe First at Edinburgh), Shadow of Himself by Neal Bell, the long-running hit Gone Missing which was included in New York Times critic Charles Isherwood's 10 Best of 2007 list, and the company's first show Canard, Canard, Goose? His plays have been published by Dramatist Play Services, Oberon Books and a forthcoming anthology from Playscripts, Inc. As an independent director he has developed and directed many new plays, musicals and classics including Jill Sobule and Elise Thoron's Prozak and Platypus, Mat Smart's 13th of Paris, Tommy Smith's Air Conditioning, Anne Washburn's Communist Dracula Pageant, world premiere of Peter Morris' Square Root of Minus One, U.S. premiere of Martin Crimp's Attempts on Her Life, U.S. premiere of Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love. He wrote and directed Close to Shore, a community-based musical for the San Diego Rep. Also The Time of Your Life at Williamstown, Serious Money and Guys and Dolls, both at Carnegie Mellon. Steven has been a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia, a MacDowell Fellow, and Resident Director at New Dramatists. Bio as of March, 2011. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio) Self-Produced Work - January, 2011 - Listen Now.