Steven Young, MFA

Associate Professor of Theatre, Acting/Directing Advisor

Steven Young was trained as an actor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professional Theatre Training Program and received an MFA in directing from Illinois State University. Steven is the author of The King’s Face – most recently produced by Dallas Shakespeare; it was the winner of the FutureFest and Southwest Playwriting Competitions, was a finalist at Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte, The Landing Theatre and the Woodard/Newman Drama Award. Steven has directed at such theatres as the Cambridge and Stamford Shakespeare Festivals in the UK, the Milwaukee Rep, the Chicago Shakespeare Project, The Illinois Shakespeare Festival, American Southwest Theatre Company, Virginia Stage Company, New American Theatre and Swine Palace. He has served three times as an artistic director, most notably for Chicago’s Boxer Rebellion Ensemble, which the Chicago Tribune noted as one of the city's 15 best companies. He was an alternate for New York Drama League’s Directors Fellowship. As an actor he has performed in over 100 plays, including the one-man show The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at Amphibian Stage Productions. Steven boasts of having performed over 50 Shakespearian roles in productions around the world. He is very proud of winning the national Shakespeare Quarterly’s Justin Shaltz Award for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Falstaff in Henry IV part 2. Steven is an alternate in the clowning and acting divisions for Cirque Soliel and has performed in many readings and productions with Shakespeare Dallas.