Stephen Thomas

Stephen Thomas

Stephen Thomas has performed many tasks in public policy: research and analyze the impact of state laws on the compliance operations of a national health care corporation; handle national news media interviews on the implications of federal policy affecting veterans; write speeches for a governor’s Public Health and Environment political appointee; perform legal research, writing, and analysis for a state...
Stephen Thomas has performed many tasks in public policy: research and analyze the impact of state laws on the compliance operations of a national health care corporation; handle national news media interviews on the implications of federal policy affecting veterans; write speeches for a governor’s Public Health and Environment political appointee; perform legal research, writing, and analysis for a state workforce commission; and cover government for print and radio news. Stephen worked 38 years either in the law or in commercial or military journalism prior to his 2019 transition to corporate compliance.

Plays

  • Catholic and Protestant (A Family Feud)
    Two hospitalized middle-aged white men —- Troy Smith, an Evangelical Christian, and Stephen Flowermill, who is Roman Catholic —- get into an oft-heated discussion about the differences between Protestantism and Catholicism. Their LGBTQ+ (transgender female) nurse is a part of the three-character story. Troy and Stephen argue a lot, laugh together a little, agree on some things, and they even sing small pieces...
    Two hospitalized middle-aged white men —- Troy Smith, an Evangelical Christian, and Stephen Flowermill, who is Roman Catholic —- get into an oft-heated discussion about the differences between Protestantism and Catholicism. Their LGBTQ+ (transgender female) nurse is a part of the three-character story. Troy and Stephen argue a lot, laugh together a little, agree on some things, and they even sing small pieces of a few hymns and one complete hymn with all of the cast members at the end –- all of which can be sung either A Capella or with an instrument. This is, nevertheless, not a musical. Above all, the characters recognize similarities between Catholicism and Protestantism, discuss solutions to the Catholic Church’s pedophile-priest infestation, discuss the role of women in the clergy, and debate the preparedness of the LGBT community for entry into the Kingdom of Heaven. A dialogue that begins confrontational, with Stephen and Troy trading theological missile attacks from their hospital beds, winds up unifying and uplifting.