Steve Cosson
Personal Information
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STEVE COSSON is the founding Artistic
Director of The Civilians. He also works
independently directing new plays,
musicals and classics. With The
Civilians: co-writer and director of
This Beautiful City which
premiered to rave reviews at the Humana
Festival and recently completed a
critically-acclaimed run at Vineyard
Theatre. Previously produced at Center
Theatre Group (Mark Taper Forum) and
Studio Theatre in D.C.; co-writer and
director of BROOKLYN: At Eye
Level produced this past winter at
Brooklyn’s Lyceum Theatre; co-
writer/director of Paris Commune
produced in The Public Theater’s
PublicLAB series; writer/director of the
long-running hit Gone Missing
produced throughout the U.S. and the
U.K. including a seven-month run at
Barrow Street Theater and selected by
critic Charles Isherwood for the New
York Times’ Top 10 of 2007 list.
Writer/director (I Am) Nobody’s
Lunch, which won the 2006 Fringe
First award at Edinburgh and was one of
two NY Times “Isherwood Recommends;” and
director of the company’s first show
Canard, Canard, Goose?.
Additionally, he’s directed The
Civilians’ work at A.R.T., Actors
Theatre of Louisville, La Jolla
Playhouse, HBO’s Aspen Comedy Festival,
The MoMA; London’s Gate Theatre and Soho
Theatre among many others. Cosson has
directed and developed new plays at
theaters including Hartford Stage, Soho
Rep, O’Neill Conference, New Harmony
Project and others. Plays include Neal
Bell’s Shadow of Himself; Mat
Smart’s 13th of Paris; Elise
Thoron and Jill Sobule’s Prozak and
the Platypus; Tommy Smith’s Air
Conditioning; Anne Washburn’s
Communist Dracula Pageant; world
premiere of Peter Morris’ Square Root
of Minus One; U.S. premiere of
Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her
Life; Peter Morris’ Marge;
U.S. premiere of Sarah Kane’s
Phaedra’s Love; World premiere of
Erik Ehn’s Tailings; Eric
Bogosian’s Scenes from the New
World; and Stupid Kids by
John C. Russell. Writer/director
Close to Shore a community-based
musical for the San Diego Rep. Director
of The Time of Your Life
(Williamstown); The Importance of
Being Earnest (ACT); Serious
Money and Guys and Dolls,
both at Carnegie Mellon; and Measure
for Measure (SF Drama-Logue Award);
Steven won an Obie in 2004 for the work
of The Civilians. He has been a
Fulbright Scholar in Colombia, a
MacDowell Fellow, twice participated in
the Sundance Theatre Lab, and Resident
Director at New Dramatists. His plays
have been published by Oberon Books in
the UK, Dramatists Play Service, and an
anthology of The Civilians published by
Playscripts Inc. He holds an MFA in
directing from UC San Diego and a BA
from Dartmouth College.
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Awards
Awards
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Award |
Production |
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NOMINATED
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2015 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Musical |
Pretty Filthy |
Conceiver |
2 |
NOMINATED
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2009 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Musical |
This Beautiful City |
Author |
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NOMINATED
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2009 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Book of a Musical |
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NOMINATED
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2009 Drama League Award, Outstanding Production of a Musical |
This Beautiful City |
Author |