Steve Feffer's plays have been produced or developed by theatres that include the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Ensemble Studio Theatre (NY), Philadelphia Festival Theatre, Stages Repertory Theatre (Houston), and the National Jewish Theatre.   His publications include The Wizards of Quiz (Dramatists Play Service), and “Little Airplanes of the Heart” in Best American Short Plays 1997-1998 (Applause Books) and Plays from Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2000 (Faber and Faber).  Additional performance pieces have been published by Heinemann Books, and his play “In Ruth Reichl's Restaurant Review” is forthcoming in The Art of the One Act (New Issues Press).  Steve has won a number of national playwriting awards including a New Play Grant from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Jewish Endowment for the Humanities for The Mystery Catcher, Southwest Plays National Children's Play Award for The House I Call Love, and the Jamie Hammerstein Award from Ensemble Studio Theatre for “Little Airplanes.”  His most recent plays include Bart, the Temp, a contemporary stage version of Melville's “Bartleby” (Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey and Open Stage [Madison]) and Mr. Rebbetzin (American Theatre of Actors [NY] and the Dorothy Silver National Jewish Play Award).   He has a BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Iowa's Playwrights Workshop, and a Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Steve is an Assistant Professor of Playwriting and Contemporary Drama in the Creative Writing Program at Western Michigan University.

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Plays
From “Little Airplanes of the Heart,”
Plays from Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2000
&
Best American Short Plays 1997-1998

From The Wizards of Quiz

Monologue
“The McDonald's Girl,”
From Monologues From the Road


Article
From “Extending the Breaks:  Fires in the Mirror in the Context of Hip-Hop Structure, Style and Culture,”
Comparative Drama,
Volume 37, Fall/Winter 2003-4, Nos. 3, 4.