Steve McMahon

Steve McMahon

Steve McMahon is a Scottish actor and writer based between Edinburgh and Florida. He has been longlisted for the Theatre 503 Playwriting Award and a semi-finalist for theEugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. He has performed with the National Theatre of Scotland, Adirondack Shakespeare Company and Bard in the Botanics and his plays have been produced or developed by Origin Theatre Company, Traverse Theatre...
Steve McMahon is a Scottish actor and writer based between Edinburgh and Florida. He has been longlisted for the Theatre 503 Playwriting Award and a semi-finalist for theEugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. He has performed with the National Theatre of Scotland, Adirondack Shakespeare Company and Bard in the Botanics and his plays have been produced or developed by Origin Theatre Company, Traverse Theatre Company, Fundamental Theater Project, Nylon Fusion, Village Pub Theatre, The Arctic Group, IRT Theater, Bridge
Street Theatre, NYC Fridge Fest and Strange Town. He trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City where he co-founded and edited The Dionysian playwriting magazine and the Caffe Cino theatre book series.

Plays

  • two of us on the run
    Two teenage girls go on the run across America.
  • Sandcastles
    Sandcastles is a moving exploration of female friendship, grief and growing up.
  • sad indie love song
    A play about a boy and a girl and a fridge and another girl. Maybe.
  • Settling
    A normal family living on the edge of a city, struggling to survive personal and cultural depression and hold on to what they have in a rapidly-changing world where nature is beginning to take over.
  • Sound and Vision
    A mother and her mute son come to terms with their grief through music and video.
  • What We Lost
    A grief-stricken Scottish man loses his wallet and his search to find it leads him home.
  • The Modern Era
    A 10-minute play about the Caffe Cino, where off-off-Broadway was born. A young security guard catches an old man spray painting a boarded-up building.
  • Rudolph, The Brown Nosed Reindeer
    A festive holiday black comedy about Rudolph, Santa, Love Actually and Christmas.
  • The Mixtape Play
    The Mixtape Play follows Laura in 2000, discovering an old mixtape made for her by her ex-boyfriend Jonny during their relationship in the 1990s. The songs she hears on the tape bring back memories of the highs and lows of their relationship.
  • EU and Us
    A 10-minute comedy-drama. A British man and American woman meet in a hotel bar on the nights of the EU Referendum and the US Election.
  • You Are Could I
    You Are Could I is a 10-minute play moving backwards in time, from a couple reconciling in old age, to midlife heartbreak and young love in their teens.
  • In Transit
    A 10-minute drama about two people losing and finding each other.
  • All Your Graces
    ALL YOUR GRACES follows two young people fighting to love and be loved.