Steven Haworth wrote Fernando which opened the Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival 2017 at the New Ohio Theatre (New York), and was also a winner of the Ashland New Play Festival, and the First Look Festival in Los Angeles, and is publshed by Next Stage Press. His play Monkey in the Shade was worked on at Seven Devils Playwrights Conference where he was Writer-in -Residence in 2018 and was a selction at The Great Plains Theatre Conference in 2019. He was commissioned to write [home] or The Quest for the Lost Tablet of Ur for Zoo District in Los Angeles that received five LA Weekly Award, a Garland, and Ovation nominations. He was commissioned to freely adapt Mikail Bulgakov's Flight for the Open Fist Theatre also in Los Angeles. In New York Little Fishes was produced off-Broadway by Abingdon Theatre and is published by Next Stage Press; Dark Age was produced by Project III Ensemble Theatre; and The White Cave produced by Jesco Productions. HIs short play Four New Years in Japan was in the Act One:One Act Festival at the Secret Theatre, and the ThinkFast Festival, and published in Best Ten Minute Plays of 2020 by Applause . His short play Time and Tony Oliva was in the Seventh Inning Stretch at Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, NJ and published in the Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2018 published by Smith and Kraus. Another short play, Baltimore, appeared in the Boo Short Play Festival at the Players Theatre, NYC. Two Tribes was performed in the Carnegie Mellon Showcase of New Plays. In New Zealand he was one of four playwrights contributing to the Big Kahuna project directed by Christine Sang. The Other Genius is a winner of the 2015 NEWvember New Plays Festival and the 2017 Long Beach New Play Festival. Blue/Whitney was a winner of Stage Left Theatre’s 10th Leapfest New Play Festival in Chicago, the Panndora New Play Festival in Long Beach, CA, a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference, and a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Steven has seen his plays developed by A.S.K. Theatreworks, Echo Theatre, E.S.T. Los Angeles, E.S.T. New York, Abingdon Theatre, Circle Rep, Circle West, the Lark Play Development Center, Stage Left, Playwrights Horizons, Zoo District, Open Fist, Mile Square Theatre, Soho Think Tank, and the Carnegie Mellon Showcase of New Plays. Steven was also a founding member and Associate Artistic Director of the Project III Ensemble Theatre in residence at the Ohio Theatre, Soho, NYC, where he wrote Dark Age, directed The Grand Ceremonial, by Fernando Arabal and performed in many productions. As an actor he has performed in numerous productions in New York, Los Angeles and regional theatre. MFA in playwriting from Carnegie Mellon University.