STEPHEN LARSEN started playwriting after travelling the world from Europe to Japan to Korea to Iraq as a journalist/video producer for the U.S. Army. His full-length plays include THE SIEGE OF ROBERT D. JAMES, about the final days of chess genius Bobby Fischer in exile in Iceland; ORDER 17, about the effect of the 2003 invasion on Americans and Iraqis; A TIME TO SPEAK, about the tug-of-war between the Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr and other Civil Rights leaders; SUSPICIOUS MINDS, the true story of Elvis' meeting with Nixon; MY OLD FRIEND, about the little-known final meeting between Paul McCartney and John Lennon; BRIGHT METAL ON A SULLEN GROUND, about the intrigue Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane faced in Paris as they sought to gain France’s support for America’s quest for...
STEPHEN LARSEN started playwriting after travelling the world from Europe to Japan to Korea to Iraq as a journalist/video producer for the U.S. Army. His full-length plays include THE SIEGE OF ROBERT D. JAMES, about the final days of chess genius Bobby Fischer in exile in Iceland; ORDER 17, about the effect of the 2003 invasion on Americans and Iraqis; A TIME TO SPEAK, about the tug-of-war between the Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr and other Civil Rights leaders; SUSPICIOUS MINDS, the true story of Elvis' meeting with Nixon; MY OLD FRIEND, about the little-known final meeting between Paul McCartney and John Lennon; BRIGHT METAL ON A SULLEN GROUND, about the intrigue Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane faced in Paris as they sought to gain France’s support for America’s quest for Independence; BIANCA, about how Bianca, a Cortigiana, follows her lover Cassio to Cyprus and gets caught up in Iago’s plot of revenge against Othello and Cassio; OTHER SIDE OF THE JORDAN, about Harriet Tubman's introduction to the Underground Railroad in Cape May, NJ; MUCH ADO ABOUT FAKE NEWS, a modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing; and A CAROL OF CHRISTMAS, a Pythonesque comedy about how Charles Dickens may have come to write his classic tale A Christmas Carol. His short and one-act plays include FERRY, THE ARTIST, WOLFSBANE, BREAKING BALLS, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF EVE and THE REST...IS SILENCE. He has written numerous unproduced feature film screenplays and was Writer, Co-Producer and First Assistant Director of the short independent film Robert D James. His play FERRY is a one-hour tragicomedy about two teenagers in love on the Staten Island Ferry.
He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and a member of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship in the US and the De Vere Society in the UK. Stephen can be reached at: Stephen.Larsen1095@gmail.com