Steve won the 2006 George Foster Peabody Award for producing Edge of America, the Official Opening Night Film at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Edge of America was also selected for the Tribeca Film Festival, the Hampton's International Film Festival, the Nantucket Film Festival, and was voted Best Film at the Native American Film Festival in San Francisco. Director Chris Eyre (Smoke
Signals) won the DGA Award for Outstanding Direction for the film, screenwriter Willy Holtzman won the WGA Award and 2006 Humanitas Award for the screenplay. Edge of America premiered on Showtime and is currently available on dvd. He produced the independent film, Bereft, starring Tim Daly, Vinessa Shaw, Tim Blake Nelson, Edward Herrmann, Michael C. Hall, and Marsha Mason, which marked the directing debut of Tim Daly and award winning Director of Photography, Clark Mathis. Bereft premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was also selected for the Seattle Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, and the AFI Festival in Los Angeles. Bereft received its broadcast cable premiere on Showtime in 2005 and is available on dvd. He executive produced the film adaptation of Emily Mann’s play, Execution Of Justice, for which he won the 2000 GLAAD Media Award for Best Television Movie. That film was directed by Leon Ichaso, and starred Tim Daly as Dan White and Peter Coyote as Harvey Milk. The L.A. Times also named the film one of the years’ Five Best TV Movies. Other producing credits include the teleplay Dinky Dau for Public Television, which he also directed, the Los Angeles premiere of Vincent Cardinal’s play, A Colorado Catechism, and the acclaimed world premiere of David McMillan’s play Watching O.J. at Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. He is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, the Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA Playwrights Unit, and the Rogue Machine Theatre.