Steve Cosson Biography

Steve Cosson is a writer and director specializing in the creation of new theatre work inspired by real life, as well as a free-lance director of new plays, musicals, and classics. He is the founding Artistic Director of the New York-based investigative theater company The Civilians. Cosson won an Obie award in 2004 for his work with The Civilians and his play (I Am) Nobody's Lunch won a coveted First Fringe award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006 He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia, a MacDowell Fellow, twice participated in the Sundance Theatre Lab, and a Resident Director at New Dramatists. His plays have been published by Oberon Books in the UK, Dramatists Play Service, and an anthology of his plays with The Civilians was published by Playscripts Inc.