STEVE LYONS
980 Middlefield Road
Berkeley, CA 94708
510-704-8855
salyons@PlayCafe.org
Productions and Honors:
Conception (one act)
Productions:
- Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art "One Act Festival." Received "Best Play" award
- Orange County Playwrights Alliance "Page to Stage" Festival
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- San Francisco City College
- Staged reading by Sonoma County Rep
Honors:
- Finalist, Phoenix Theatre's "Festival of Emerging American Theatre"
- Finalist, Actor's Theatre of Santa Rosa "New Theatre Works Festival"
- Finalist, "Pittsburgh New Works Festival"
Cockroach Infestation (full length)
Productions:
- Non-equity. Three Wise Monkeys, producer. (www.ThreeWiseMonkeys.org) 5/10/2002 to 6/02/2002 at New Langton Arts in San Francisco, CA.
Honors:
- Semifinalist (top ten), "McLaren Comedy Play Writing Competition," (Midland, TX)
- Finalist, "Pittsburgh New Play Festival"
- Honorable Mention, Actor's Theatre of Santa Rosa "New Theatre Works Festival"
- Finalist, Ashland New Plays Festival
- Staged reading in Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz, "New Play Contest"
- Staged reading in San Francisco Playwrights Center, "DramaRama" Contest
These Altered Days (65 minute full length)
Honors:
- Finalist, Lark Theatre "Playwright's Week"
- Selected for the Edward Albee Last Frontier Theatre Conference
- Staged reading at City Lights Theater in San Jose
- Staged reading at Play Cafe reading series in Berkeley
- Staged reading in Actors Theatre of Santa Rosa New Works Festival
Peaches En Regalia (one act)
Productions
- Fritz Blitz One-Act Festival in San Diego. Received "Best Play" award
- 2004 Bay Area One Acts Festival
- 2004 EATFest New Plays Festival in New York City
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- Best of Bay One Acts Festival 2006
- Love in America Festival, London, 2007
- Sacred Fools Theatre, Los Angeles, 2008
- Best of the Fritz Blitz, San Diego, September 2008
Play writing Related:
Founder, Playwrights Cafe writing group. Webmaster of PlayCafe.org.
Other Writing Experience:
Books: HomeBuyer - The Book and Software Home Buying Kit
Magazines and Newspapers: Articles published in The Progressive, Option Magazine, Z Magazine, Northern California Home and Garden, Wire, Physicians for a National Health Program, Whole Earth Review, The Phoenix Journal, Visual C++ Developer and newspapers nationwide.
First Casualty (Screenplay)
Honors
- Moondance Film Festival 2007 Finalist (top 20 of 450 entries)
- Selected for IFP "Market 28" in New York City, 2006 (top 40 of 450 entries)
- Script Shark Screenwriting Contest Finalist (top 10 of 360 entries)
- American Zoetrope Semifinalist (top 150 of 2000 scripts)
- AAA Creative Screen Writing Quarterfinalist
- FilmMakers Screenwriting Awards Quarterfinalist (top 500 out of 1300 entries)
- Screenplay Festival Finalist
Education:
Bachelor Science, Electrical Engineering; University of California at Berkeley