Steven Breese (Short Bio)
Actor, Director, Teacher, Playwright

Steven Breese has enjoyed a national and international acting, directing career that has spanned more than twenty years. An active member of AEA, SAG and AFTRA, he holds his MFA from California Institute of the Arts and served as Director of the BFA/Acting Program at Texas Christian University from 1992-1998. He is currently Director of Theater at Christopher Newport University (Norfolk, Virginia).

Some of the nationally recognized theaters where Mr. Breese has either acted or directed include: South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, CA), Cleveland Playhouse (Cleveland, OH), Chanhassen Theaters (Minneapolis, MN), Sherwood Shakespeare Festival (Ventura, CA), American Heartland Theatre (Kansas City, MO), Forum Theatre (Chicago, IL), The Royal George Theatre (Chicago), Ft. Worth Shakespeare in the Park, Watertower Theatre, Casa Manana, Stage West, Shakespeare Festival of Dallas (Dallas, TX), and The Operettenhaus (Hamburg, Germany).

As a playwright, Mr. Breese's more recent works include Character Assassinations, Doubletake, Brotherly Love, Painted Cages and his newest work, The Trial of Hamlet. In 1998 he was commissioned by The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas to develop an original play based on Shakespeare's sonnets entitled Devouring Time. He is currently collaborating with composer Blaise Ferrandino on a new musical Gesualdo.