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John Steppling (born June 18, 1951 in Burbank, California) is an American playwright, screenwriter and teacher. Steppling's plays have been produced in the United States and Europe. He received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a residency at the McDowell Colony and has received PEN-West, LA ...
He is also a great teacher. He has protean interests–political, personal, epochal, mystical and dreamlike all at once. Saul Bellow said that a writer is a reader moved to emulation. Any serious playwright would gain far more by emulating Steppling and participating in his workshop than by surrendering to any American MFA program.
Mar 4, 2014 · Born in Burbank, Steppling was raised in Hollywood and attended Hollywood High. His father, Carl Steppling, was a part-time actor and wardrobe assistant. His grandfather, John Steppling, was a prolific silent-film actor who appeared in many Essanay films. Steppling has noted that his upbringing moving from neighborhood to neighborhood in LA ...
- Joanna Perry-Folino
Apr 1, 1990 · April 1, 1990. Three years ago, playwright-directors John Steppling and Robert Glaudini formed a theater company in L.A. called Heliogabalus, named after the cruel emperor in Artaud’s The Anarchist King. Declaring an intellectual niche in L.A.’s theater scene may seem like suicide—their first production was an adaptation of Children of ...
Apr 30, 2014 · He is also a great teacher. He has protean interests–political, personal, epochal, mystical and dreamlike all at once. Saul Bellow said that a writer is a reader moved to emulation. Any serious playwright would gain far more by emulating Steppling and participating in his workshop than by surrendering to any American MFA program.
John Steppling is an American playwright, screenwriter and teacher. Steppling's plays have been produced in the United States and Europe. He received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a residency at the McDowell Colony and has received PEN-West, LA Weekly and Dramalogue awards for his theatrical work.
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Jul 22, 2021 · He is also a great teacher. He has protean interests–political, personal, epochal, mystical and dreamlike all at once. Saul Bellow said that a writer is a reader moved to emulation. Any serious playwright would gain far more by emulating Steppling and participating in his workshop than by surrendering to any American MFA program.
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