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Three Weirdos on a heath in Scotland are trying their best to cast a spell on a certain Thane who shall not (cannot) be named. The results are decidedly mixed.
Steve Wargo
Steve Wargo
I've been working in New York theater as a director, producer, and writer since the fall of 2000. In the summer of 2020, I, along with Tony-nominated producer Blair Russell (Slave Play), founded Resounding, a live immersive theatre and entertainment production company.
To date, we've created six new immersive audio works, including the first new play to open before a live audience...
To date, we've created six new immersive audio works, including the first new play to open before a live audience...
I've been working in New York theater as a director, producer, and writer since the fall of 2000. In the summer of 2020, I, along with Tony-nominated producer Blair Russell (Slave Play), founded Resounding, a live immersive theatre and entertainment production company.
To date, we've created six new immersive audio works, including the first new play to open before a live audience since the pandemic shutdown, the unauthorized parody in verse, "Clu-eth" (starring Manu Narayan, Brian Charles Rooney, and Thom Sesma). Other Resounding projects include the World Premiere ghost play "Beyond the Veil" (starring Montego Glover and Quentin Earl Darrington), and adaptations of "Dracula" (starring Norm Lewis), "Treasure Island" (starring Rob McClure and Maggie Lakis), "Nutcracker" (starring Telly Leung and Storm Lever), and The "Tempest" (starring "Sesame Street"‘s Sonia Manzano).
My theater work spans from new and traditional musicals to the avant garde fringe to environmental/immersive works. Favorite credits include (as director): the immersive concert experience "Kabarett Weimar"; seven NYC productions of his musical adaptation (with Dianne Adams McDowell) of "Charles Dickens’ 'A Christmas Carol'"; David Ives’ "Don Juan in Chicago" (first NYC revival); "The Duchess, aka Wallis Simpson" and "Orchidelirium" (both U.S. premieres).
As writer: "Triassic Parq: The Musical" (with Marshall Pailet and Bryce Norbitz) (NYC Fringe Best Musical ’10; Off Broadway ’12: Lortel Nom.; L.A. ’13: 11 Ovation Award Noms, Winner: Best Musical; San Franciso ’14: 8 SGBATCC Noms; Published and licensed by Broadway Licensing.); "Scooby-Doosical" with Keith Varney;
"Nighttime Traffic" with Alex Wyse.
As producer: Keith Varney’s "I Got Fired: A Revenge Musical" (with Liz Ulmer, dir. Steve Bebout, NYMF ’10; Theater for the American Musical Award; South Korea’s Daegu International Musical Festival ’11);
the late, great Arthur Kopit’s revised "BecauseHeCan" (first NYC revival, dir. Nicholas Cotz).
In theater-adjacent work, I've has lectured on “A Christmas Carol” at Brooklyn College, and my essay, “Journey On,” on how the AIDS crisis impacted the development of the American Musical, was published in the trade journal “Musical Theater Today”. I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, and earned my BFA in Musical Theater from Syracuse University.
To date, we've created six new immersive audio works, including the first new play to open before a live audience since the pandemic shutdown, the unauthorized parody in verse, "Clu-eth" (starring Manu Narayan, Brian Charles Rooney, and Thom Sesma). Other Resounding projects include the World Premiere ghost play "Beyond the Veil" (starring Montego Glover and Quentin Earl Darrington), and adaptations of "Dracula" (starring Norm Lewis), "Treasure Island" (starring Rob McClure and Maggie Lakis), "Nutcracker" (starring Telly Leung and Storm Lever), and The "Tempest" (starring "Sesame Street"‘s Sonia Manzano).
My theater work spans from new and traditional musicals to the avant garde fringe to environmental/immersive works. Favorite credits include (as director): the immersive concert experience "Kabarett Weimar"; seven NYC productions of his musical adaptation (with Dianne Adams McDowell) of "Charles Dickens’ 'A Christmas Carol'"; David Ives’ "Don Juan in Chicago" (first NYC revival); "The Duchess, aka Wallis Simpson" and "Orchidelirium" (both U.S. premieres).
As writer: "Triassic Parq: The Musical" (with Marshall Pailet and Bryce Norbitz) (NYC Fringe Best Musical ’10; Off Broadway ’12: Lortel Nom.; L.A. ’13: 11 Ovation Award Noms, Winner: Best Musical; San Franciso ’14: 8 SGBATCC Noms; Published and licensed by Broadway Licensing.); "Scooby-Doosical" with Keith Varney;
"Nighttime Traffic" with Alex Wyse.
As producer: Keith Varney’s "I Got Fired: A Revenge Musical" (with Liz Ulmer, dir. Steve Bebout, NYMF ’10; Theater for the American Musical Award; South Korea’s Daegu International Musical Festival ’11);
the late, great Arthur Kopit’s revised "BecauseHeCan" (first NYC revival, dir. Nicholas Cotz).
In theater-adjacent work, I've has lectured on “A Christmas Carol” at Brooklyn College, and my essay, “Journey On,” on how the AIDS crisis impacted the development of the American Musical, was published in the trade journal “Musical Theater Today”. I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, and earned my BFA in Musical Theater from Syracuse University.