Theater director, writer
Steven Cosson is the founding Artistic Director of OBIE grant-winning theater group The Civilians. With the company, he was writer/director of Nobody’s Lunch (PS 122), Paris Commune (La Jolla Playhouse, co-authored with Michael Friedman); Gone Missing (productions in New York, London, HBO’s US Comedy Festival, US tour); and Canard, Canard, Goose? (joe’s pub/Public Theater and HERE). At Soho Rep, US premiere of Attempts on Her Life (Martin Crimp), also The Communist Dracula Pageant (Anne Washburn), and Marge (Peter Morris). Regionally, he has directed US premieres of Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love, Peter Morris’ The Square Root of Minus One; new plays by Erik Ehn, John C. Russell, and others; Measure for Measure; The Importance of Being Earnest (ACT Conservatory); The Time of Your Life (Williamstown Theatre Festival); recently Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money at Carnegie Mellon. Other original work: Fingered, (ASK Theater Projects and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts); and Close to Shore, (San Diego Rep).
He is Resident Director at New Dramatists. In addiiton, he was a MacDowell Fellow, completed the NEA/TCG Career Development Program, was a Boris Sagal Fellow, and participated in the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and was a Fulbright Scholar to Colombia.