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Steve Harper

Steve Harper‘s plays include Urban Rabbit Chronicles (nominated for the Weresberger Award), The Escape Artist’s Children, and Beyond Belief (a new musical) in progress. An actor, writer and NY native, he has been awarded a MacDowell residency, the Le Compte du Nouy prize (twice), the Telly Award, and the Skidmore Residency for Artists of Color at Yaddo. Steve is a graduate of Yale, the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard and the Julliard Playwriting Program.