Planting Seeds: A Virtual Conversation with writer and showrunner Steve Yockey

FREE EVENT

Friday April 8, 2022 7pm EST

Steve Yockey is a Los Angeles based writer with work produced throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. His plays Bellwether, Pluto, Afterlife, Octopus, Large Animal Games, CARTOON, Subculture, Very Still & Hard to See, Blackberry Winter, The Thrush & The Woodpecker, The Fisherman’s Wife, Wolves, Disassembly, and Niagara Falls & Other Plays are published and licensed by Samuel FrenchConcord Theatricals. His newest play Sleeping Giant was selected for the Center Theatre Group LA Playwrights Festival and premiered at the Assembly Rooms in the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Next season: Bleeding Hearts will premier in a co-production between Arizona Theatre Company (Phoenix) and Stray Cat Theatre (Tempe). Steve holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He was a Co-Executive Producer on the television series Supernatural and is an Executive Producer and the creatorshowrunner on HBO Max’s Emmy-nominated darkly comedic thriller The Flight Attendant.

Join us to learn about Steve's career from his time as an Actor's Express apprentice to his experience creating work with some of the biggest actors in Hollywood. This is the capstone event for the Planting Seeds: Spring 2022 Matching Gift campaign to support the New Play Commissioning Program and the Apprentice Company. All gifts will be matched by Actor's Express Board Chair Arlene Glaser and Board Member Dr. Jesse M. Peel.