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December 2013
Steve talked about the CAFM Holiday Hurrah with Grace McPhillips
on WGN
Radio's Nick Digilio Show. Their interview starts about halfway through
this link.
Steve and Grace were also interviewed by film critic and writer Pat McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com's article about them and the CAFM Holiday Hurrah.
November 2013
Steve wrote comedy for THE
MOVIE GUYS SHOWCAST, which featured an appearance by Joel
Murray reading The Hunger Games characters over NFL Films music.
October 2013
Steve had auditions for roles on two TV shows, and participated in the
On-Camera
Workout run by actress Grace
McPhillips.
Steve served on the Planning Committee and worked the VIP Reception for the first-ever Chicago Film + Media Summit.
Steve was a panelist at
SAG-AFTRA Answers One Group Mind's Questions, along with Kathy Byrne,
Sean Hennessy, Kathy Nelsen, and his agent from Grossman & Jack Talent,
Jess Jones.
September 2013
Steve had auditions for three TV commercials, and took the Workout
With The Pros - Advanced Voiceover Skills class at Acting
Studio Chicago taught by Deb
Doetzer.
Steve released the original song "So Much" on SoundCloud as an anniversary present for two friends.
August 2013
Steve got elected to the new SAG-AFTRA
Chicago Board for a two-year term.
Steve auditioned in the Film Actors Generals run by CAFM.
Steve wrote comedy for THE MOVIE GUYS SHOWCAST, including an interview with everyone's favorite scary sound effect, Bwong.
July 2013
Steve helped run CAFM's
Fillmmakers Speed Networking Night for actors and filmmakers.
June 2013
Steve volunteered with The
Chicago Acting in Film Meetup NFP as their Giving Back Committee helped
with Food For Friends at Church of Our Saviour.
May
2013
Steve's acting in the comedy short Foreclosure Soldier was selected for
the CAFM Actors
Showcase happening May 20, 2013 in Chicago.
April 2013
Steve's original monologue Super
Power was released as a video short.
March 2013
Steve wrote for The
Movie Guys, contributing a segment called "All The Tyler Perrys,"
and appearing as the voice of a panicked caller stuck at a movie theater.
Steve also had a callback
for a national commercial for a matress company.
February 2013
Steve was elected to The Chicago Acting in Film Meetup NFP's Executive
Committee.
January 2013
Steve played Interior Department Spokesperson John Tuttle in The Onion
story Department
Of Interior Bilked Out Of $18 Million In Funding By Con Gopher.
December 2012
Steve did publicity for CAFM's 4th Annual Networking Night and Holiday
Fundraiser, appearing with CAFM
Founder and Co-Director Grace McPhillips on WGN Radio with Nick Digilio
and an interview with Pat
McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com.
November 2012
Steve's latest Commercial
Voice Over Demo was released. Donovan Weyland of CRC did the sound design
and engineering.
Steve was quoted in SCREEN Magazine's article about The Chicago Acting in Film NFP receiving its nonprofit status.
October 2012
Steve moderated the 4-week workshop Piece of the Pie For Chicago
Improv: We’ve Got Your Back! sponsored by SAG-AFTRA Chicago.
September 2012
Steve voiced an industrial narration for a national corporate client.
Steve and The Chicago Acting in Film Meetup NFP attended an event at Daufenbach Camera, which got covered in print and pictures by SCREEN Magazine.
Steve was quoted in the SCREEN article SAG-AFTRA Chicago Launches “Piece of the Pie For Chicago Improv: We’ve Got Your Back!"
August 2012
Steve played Netflix executive Jay Hoag in The
Onion's Week in Review.
Steve attended the Michael Kostroff AuditionPsych101
workshop in Chicago, hosted by The
Chicago Acting in Film Meetup.
July 2012
FITTING
won the award for Best Comedy Short (over 10 min), Best Director - Comedy
Short (Larry Ziegelman)
and Best Comedy Actress (Grace
McPhillips) at the 2012 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.
Steve celebrated one year with Grossman & Jack Talent.
Steve also co-hosted The Chicago Acting in Film Meetup July Event "Bullshit: How To Spot It And What You Can Do About It."
June 2012
Steve played the lead role of John J. Peterson III in a staged reading
of the play CATCHPENNY by Gerry Ringwald as part of AstonRep
Theatre Company’s 2012 Writer's Series.
May 2012
Steve had a TV audition for a supermarket chain and a regional superstore,
plus many voice over auditions, including a guy who flexes at the office,
a German performance art character, and a cow who sounds like a U.S. President.
April 2012
Steve co-hosted the April event "The Changing Landscape: I feel
like I'm growing; how can I get people to notice?" for The
Chicago Acting in Film Meetup, and was named Co-Director of the CAFM by
founder and Co-Director Grace McPhillips.
Steve became a member of the new union SAG-AFTRA.
Sterling Rock Productions' short Fitting screened at MOFEST in Chicago on April 22, 2012.
Steve also participated in a SAG Foundation series event and a special CAFM event with LA Casting Director and instructor Bonnie Gillespie.
March 2012
Steve hosted the March event "March MATTNess" for The
Chicago Acting in Film Meetup, featuring guests Matthew Miller and Matt
Amador.
Sterling Rock Productions' short Fitting
screened at the inaugural Women
In Film/Chicago Females In Focus event, playing to a very receptive audience
just weeks after the film's international debut at the Vancouver
Women In Film Festival.
Steve's writing is featured in the February 2012 Movie Recap from THE MOVIE GUYS.
Steve also wrote for THE MOVIE GUYS - LIVE March show at The Second City in Los Angeles, helping draft a Seuss-ian preview for THE LORAX.
February 2012
Steve wrote a piece in support of the SAG and AFTRA merger. You can read
it here.
January 2012
Steve played a lead role in Bette's Pie, a short set in
a 1930's bar and filmed at Tribeca
Flashpoint Academy.
December 2011
Steve wrote for THE
MOVIE GUYS 2ND ANNUAL HOLIDAY SPECIAL helping with the Carnage
recipe segment and the video for We Bought A Zoo!
Steve did public relations work for The Chicago Acting In Film Meetup's 3rd
Annual Networking Night and Holiday Fundraiser, and appeared with group organizer
Grace McPhillips on WGN Radio 720 to discuss the event live on The
Nick Digilio Show.
Steve also became a board member with The Chicago Acting In Film Meetup NFP
as the group applied for its 501(c)(3) status.
The comedy shorts Fitting
and "Lisa's Training Purse," for which Steve did creative consulting
on the scripts, are now reaching the film festivals.
Steve had a flurry of
voiceover auditions, including one for a pinball game.
November 2011
Steve participated in the annual Meals For Monologues event at Simon Casting,
which helps bring non-perishible food and other items to needy families in
Chicago.
Steve also helped organize the "Comedy On-Camera" event for The Chicago Acting in Film Meetup Group, featuring local filmmakers Larry Ziegelman and Michael Starcevich who did a panel and mock auditions for ads and a short film.
October 2011
Steve had more radio and TV auditions, including four for a national department
store chain.
September 2011
The Illinois Lottery commercial “Parade” began running on network
and cable TV after Labor Day. The ad can be seen on YouTube at this
link.
August 2011
Steve booked
an Illinois Lottery commercial called “Parade.” Filming took place
in the Hegewisch neighborhood of Chicago.
Steve was the guest speaker for "Mythbusting" at the AFTRA/SAG Chicago Piece Of The Pie series covering benefits for new union and pre-union actors. Many attendees rated it the best night in the eight-week series.
Steve performed a staged reading of the rare original of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK screenplay by writer Leigh Brackett for AstonRep Theatre Company’s 2011 Fundraiser Steve played five roles, including Commander Willard and an early version of Jedi Master Yoda. He also got to meet a real-life Stormtrooper.
Steve moderated the Film Schools Panel for The Chicago Acting in Film Meetup Group. He ran the discussion with representatives from the film programs at Columbia College, Art Institute of Illinois, DePaul University and Northwestern University.
July 2011
Steve signed with Grossman
& Jack Talent for exclusive representation covering on-camera, voiceover,
theater and print work.
June 2011
Steve had more TV commercial auditions, including a callback for a national
soft drink company.
Steve hosted the June event for The Chicago Acting In Film Meetup Group, "Your Type, Your Talents, Your Timeline: How To Know & Market Yourself Better."
May 2011
Steve performed at the
AstonRep Theater Company's
Third Annual Writer's Series Festival reading a new play from award-winning
author Robert Tobin. This is Steve's third year as an actor in the festival.
Steve helped organize the May event for The Chicago Acting In Film Meetup Group, recruiting panelists for the topic "LA & Chicago: Can You Do Both?"
April 2011
Steve's April Fools' Day piece for THE MOVIE GUYS, "Nicolas
Cage: WTF?" debuted online at The
Movie Guys YouTube Channel.
March 2011
Steve continued writing for THE MOVIE GUYS, whose weekly webisodes
are regularly rated "100% Funny" on Funny
or Die.
February 2011
Steve worked with a dozen actors who read witness testimony at the trial
of a man convicted in 1953 who was allegedly mistreated by Chicago police
officers during his arrest. Since none of the witnesses from the original
trial were still alive, their transcripts were read by actors before a judge
and jury in Chicago courtroom.
January 2011
Steve worked on three SAG video industrials to help train salespeople
at a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company.
Fall - Winter 2010
Steve worked as a Leadership Team Member with The
Chicago Acting In Film Meetup Group doing public relations and other volunteer
work for their Annual December Networking Event and Holiday Fundraiser in
Chicago. More than 200 people attended, and the group raised thousands of
dollars for a possible showcase in 2011.
Summer 2010
Steve's first comedy pieces for THE MOVIE GUYS premiered during their
August Previews. See clips here at their YouTube
Channel or at Funny
or Die.com.
Steve also played a business man in the one-act "LOW," adapted by Robert Tobin from the Anton Chekov story "Misery." It ran at City Lit Theater's Art Of Adaptation Festival and won the top prize as Best Of The Fest.
Spring 2010
Steve played Pastor Meyer, a Gestapo Officer and another German Oficer
in the world premiere of The Hiding Place with Provision
Theater. The play was Jeff Recommended and earned three nominations for
Best Actress, Set Design and Music. It played to sold out crowds throughout
its seven week run.