About

Steve is a comedy writer and director based in Australia. He was an Oxbelly 2024 Episodic Writer’s program fellow, and a participant of the inaugural 2024 Black List Projects Lab.

His short film VOICE ACTIVATED - about a deliveryman, who stutters, forced to cooperate with a voice activated car - premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and was an official selection of the 2023 Tribeca Festival. It won 12 awards at festivals, including 4 audience choice awards. It won Best Short Production at the 2023 Screen Producers Australia Awards and was nominated for an Australian Writer’s Guild award, and an Australian Academy Award. It is available on YouTube via Omeleto and on SBS on Demand in Australia.

In 2022 he wrote and directed MY SUMMER IN THE HUMAN RESISTANCE, a proof of concept short made through The Black List / Hornitos ‘Take Your Shot’ initiative and premiering at the 2023 Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Festival. The feature screenplay, a coming of age comedy, was featured by The Black List in Feb 2024, made The Black List's ‘Aussie List’ and won the grand prize at Final Draft Big Break.

The Huffington Post called his 2014 YouTube series WINGMAN “a brilliant comedy web series that’s a sassy reflection of fundamentalist contradictions” and SBS Comedy called it “one of the best web series to come out of Australia this year”.

He’s directed ads for Ausfilm, Netflix and Staples, and loves comedies that find a way to be both fun and meaningful.

Email: steve@spaceboy.com.au