Steve Carter
Steve Carter received the Living Legend Award at the 2001 National Black Theatre Festival. He was Victory Gardens Theater’s first playwright-in-residence beginning in 1981, and has also served as play... Read more
Steve Carter received the Living Legend Award at the 2001 National Black Theatre Festival. He was Victory Gardens Theater’s first playwright-in-residence beginning in 1981, and has also served as playwright-in-residence at George Mason University. Carter’s PECONG (winner of the Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work) premiered at Victory Gardens in the l989-1990 season and received subsequent productions at London’s Tricycle Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and Newark Symphony Hall. His plays EDEN (winner of an Outer Critics Circle Award, an Audelco Award, and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award) and NEVIS MOUNTAIN DEW received Midwest premieres, and DAME LORRAINE, HOUSE OF SHADOWS, SHOOT ME WHILE I’M HAPPY, SPIELE 36 OR THE FOURTH MEDAL, and ROOT CAUSES all premiered at Victory Gardens. Carter teaches writing workshops at the Restoration Center for Arts and Culture in Brooklyn. As a recipient of the Living Legend Award from the National Black Theater Festival, he continues consulting and teaching eight young playwrights. Carter’s plays, most notably EDEN, are produced around the world.