Steve Apostolina

Steve Apostolina is an actor, playwright, director and producer - occasionally all at the same time. Full length plays include: Killer, Derelict in Fairville, Broken, Forever Bound, The American way and Flight of the Penguin. Short plays (partial) T.N.T., Vulnerable Species, Sleeping Dogs, Cold in Hand, Killed in Des Moines, Embroiled, Elevator Repair and Doreen. His work has been seen in LA and NY as well as all over the US. Playwriting Awards include (partial): Killer - First Place Winner in 2022 Julie Harris Playwriting Competition, Ovation Award Nomination (Forever Bound), Dramalogue Award (Flight of the Penguin) Labute New Theatre Festival (2 time finalist 2015 Cold in Hand and 2020 T.N.T), New Jersey Rep Festival finalist (Embroiled). LA Theatres have seen his work at Anteaus Theatre...

Steve Apostolina is an actor, playwright, director and producer - occasionally all at the same time. Full length plays include: Killer, Derelict in Fairville, Broken, Forever Bound, The American way and Flight of the Penguin. Short plays (partial) T.N.T., Vulnerable Species, Sleeping Dogs, Cold in Hand, Killed in Des Moines, Embroiled, Elevator Repair and Doreen. His work has been seen in LA and NY as well as all over the US. Playwriting Awards include (partial): Killer - First Place Winner in 2022 Julie Harris Playwriting Competition, Ovation Award Nomination (Forever Bound), Dramalogue Award (Flight of the Penguin) Labute New Theatre Festival (2 time finalist 2015 Cold in Hand and 2020 T.N.T), New Jersey Rep Festival finalist (Embroiled). LA Theatres have seen his work at Anteaus Theatre, Atwater Village Theatre, The Road Theatre, The Ventura Court Theatre, The Limelight Playhouse and The Open Fist - among others. Forever Bound, after enjoying a critical run in LA, starring French Stewart, subsequently had a reading in NYC for Williamstown Theatre with Amanda Seyfried, Tommy Sadoski, Peter Friedman and Howard Overshown. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild and has been in the writing labs at Antaeus Theatre, The Road Theatre, The Cloud factory and Playground LA. As an actor – you can see some credits on IMDB. Intimate Los Angeles Theatre is largely responsible for his successful 35 year voice-over career (which supports his theatre junkie habit) as well as an introduction to his lovely wife when they met playing lovers in Jamie Baker’s Don’t Go Back to Rockville.

Scripts

Cold in Hand

by Steve Apostolina

Synopsis

An elderly black man and a white teenager boy meet on the streets, both unhoused. This unlikely duo finds out they have a lot more in common than they expected. As Muddy says "Everything gonna be alright."

An elderly black man and a white teenager boy meet on the streets, both unhoused. This unlikely duo finds out they have a lot more in common than they expected. As Muddy says "Everything gonna be alright."

Embroiled

by Steve Apostolina

Synopsis

A Border Agent interrogates a Detainee. The Detainee is a chicken

A Border Agent interrogates a Detainee. The Detainee is a chicken

Killer

by Steve Apostolina

Synopsis

Set in south Texas where Jesus and football rule, Killer is the story of a high school football superstar whose dreams have been dashed by a most likely preventable injury. Dixie home cares for her wheelchair-bound son Randall (nicknamed Killer), after he sustained a traumatic brain injury during a game. A producer on the extremely popular television docu-series Reaction Sports is coming to interview Dixie and...

Set in south Texas where Jesus and football rule, Killer is the story of a high school football superstar whose dreams have been dashed by a most likely preventable injury. Dixie home cares for her wheelchair-bound son Randall (nicknamed Killer), after he sustained a traumatic brain injury during a game. A producer on the extremely popular television docu-series Reaction Sports is coming to interview Dixie and Randall for possible inclusion in a future episode. Present will be Randall’s best friend and fellow high school football superstar, Devonté, Dixie’s daughter Annabel and Dixie’s ex-husband and former coach, the volatile Butch. National exposure would almost certainly spark donations to Randall’s anemic GoFundMe campaign and help with the astronomical health care costs, so it is imperative that the interview goes well. But with exposure comes truth – and family truths can be filled with killers. The cost of winning has never been so deadly.

Forever Bound

by Steve Apostolina

Synopsis

A Los Angeles rare bookseller's scheme to avoid bankruptcy goes shockingly awry. This bizarre conjoining of Pygmalion and American Buffalo, with its horrifying twists, will ultimately confront the audience to decide: Are we all savages?

A Los Angeles rare bookseller's scheme to avoid bankruptcy goes shockingly awry. This bizarre conjoining of Pygmalion and American Buffalo, with its horrifying twists, will ultimately confront the audience to decide: Are we all savages?

Derelict in Fairville

by Steve Apostolina

Synopsis

After a monumentally tragic event in the small midwestern town of Fairville, Ohio,
chain reactions begin to occur on a national scale. School Resource Officer Tim Reed and his
family become the unwanted focal point from all of the fallout and their peaceful existence is
threatened. Can this nuclear family survive a changing world and the judgements placed upon
them or will they explode like the tragedy that...

After a monumentally tragic event in the small midwestern town of Fairville, Ohio,
chain reactions begin to occur on a national scale. School Resource Officer Tim Reed and his
family become the unwanted focal point from all of the fallout and their peaceful existence is
threatened. Can this nuclear family survive a changing world and the judgements placed upon
them or will they explode like the tragedy that triggered it?

Broken

by Steve Apostolina

Synopsis

Like Manson girl Leslie Van Houten, Carlotta Cantrell was convicted of murder at an early age and has been incarcerated her entire adult life. Unlike Van Houten, Carlotta has maintained her innocence from the very beginning, claiming that her then boyfriend, madman Deacon Macomber, was responsible for everything. Now that she has been a model prisoner for 33 years, her lawyer is calling for that behavior to be...

Like Manson girl Leslie Van Houten, Carlotta Cantrell was convicted of murder at an early age and has been incarcerated her entire adult life. Unlike Van Houten, Carlotta has maintained her innocence from the very beginning, claiming that her then boyfriend, madman Deacon Macomber, was responsible for everything. Now that she has been a model prisoner for 33 years, her lawyer is calling for that behavior to be rewarded.
Elton Sweeney, whose family was murdered 33 years ago, pleads with the parole board – telling them that his family was good – all their lives, “but they can’t get no reward because she killed ‘em - in cold blood! And now you want to set that animal free?”
But justice has seen fit to release Carlotta out into a new world where a reckoning between these two broken souls is imminent. From the innocence of Space travel in the 1960’s to the commonplace of the Space Shuttle in the 1990’s, BROKEN traverses these uniquely American eras in a small town in Texas, to examine the universal human quality of forgiveness.

T.N.T.

by Steve Apostolina

Synopsis

The guard gate of a major movie studio is the setting for this incendiary workplace comedy. Fuses will be lit, walls will be torn down and borders will be brazenly crossed. Boom!

The guard gate of a major movie studio is the setting for this incendiary workplace comedy. Fuses will be lit, walls will be torn down and borders will be brazenly crossed. Boom!