Steven Peros
{{short description|American dramatist}}
Steven Peros is an American playwright, director and screenwriter of film and television. He is the author of both the stage play and screenplay for The Cat's Meow, which was made into the 2002 Lionsgate film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard, Edward Herrmann, Cary Elwes, Jennifer Tilly, and Joanna Lumley.Rosenbaum, Jonathan, [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/?p=6233 "Hollywood Confidential: 'The Cat's Meow'".] Chicago Reader, April 26, 2002, archived at JonathanRosenbaum.net. Retrieved 5 January 2013Scott, A.O., [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/12/movies/12MEOW.html "A Mystery Looming Larger Than Rosebud".] The New York Times, April 12, 2002
Early life
Steven George Peros was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in North Babylon, New York, where he attended public school. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Television.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}
Career
As a playwright, The Cat's Meow had its world premiere in Los Angeles in 1997 and is published by Samuel French, Inc. It has been performed in four countries as of 2013. His earlier play, Karlaboy (1994) also premiered in Los Angeles where it received a Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Achievement in Writing.{{cite web | url=https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/2840/the-cats-meow | title=The Cat's Meow }} It is also published by Samuel French. In 2021, Peros would adapt the play to a musical.{{cite web | url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/las-vegas/article/Hearst-Davies-Play-THE-CATS-MEOW-Set-For-Musical-Debut-Via-Majestic-Rep-20210608 | title=Hearst-Davies Play THE Cat's MEOW Set for Musical Debut Via Majestic Rep }}
Peros made his directorial debut with Footprints (2011), which was hailed as "One of the Ten Best Films So Far This Year"{{cite web | url = http://nypress.com/the-2011-mid-year-reckoning/ | title = The 2011 Mid Year Reckoning | publisher = nypress.com | date = 6 July 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131022083157/http://nypress.com/the-2011-mid-year-reckoning/ | archive-date = 22 October 2013 }} by Armond White, Chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle and was similarly praised by critics Kevin Thomas, F.X. Feeney, Mick LaSalle,{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Footprints-review-The-miasma-of-Hollywood-2408002.php | title = 'Footprints' review: The miasma of Hollywood | publisher = sfgate.com |date=16 Dec 2011}} and White during the film's initial release.{{cite web | url = http://nypress.com/california-dreaming-responsibly/ | title = California Dreaming, Responsibly | publisher = nypress.com | date = 18 April 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130630012750/http://nypress.com/california-dreaming-responsibly/ | archive-date = 30 June 2013 }} He followed this with The Undying (2011), which he directed and co-wrote, and which starred Robin Weigert, Wes Studi, Jay O. Sanders, and Sybil Temtchine. For television, he wrote for The Lot and the Lifetime Original Movie A Country Christmas Story.
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.stevenperos.com}}
- [https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/steven-peros/id488524585 Steven Peros, on iTunes, movies, books]
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Category:American dramatists and playwrights
Category:American male screenwriters
Category:Writers from Brooklyn
Category:People from North Babylon, New York
Category:Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:American male dramatists and playwrights