Steven Carpenter
Actor/Director/Voice Artist
Directing Resume
Associate Artistic Director - The Washington Stage Guild - 2018 to Present
Full Productions
An Unbuilt Life (World Premiere)
Major Barbara
Sam & Dede: or My Dinner with André the Giant
Don Juan in Hell (Virtual Production)
Resolving Hedda
God of Carnage
On Approval
Avenue Q
The Cripple of Inishmaan
2014 Best Plays in Professional Theatres - DCMetroTheaterArts
Inventing Van Gogh
The Price
Barrymore
2011 Top Ten In Stage – Baltimore City Paper
2011 Favorite Solo Performance – MD Theatre Guide
Red Herring
Darwin in Malibu
Mauritius
2010 Best in Theatre – Drama Urge
Hysteria
2009 Best of Maryland Stage – CNN
2009 Best Freudian Wit – Baltimore City Paper
Best of 2009-10 – DC Theatre Scene
Trumbo: Red, White & Blacklisted
2008 Top Ten In Stage – Baltimore City Paper
Mrs. Farnsworth
Opus
Mother Courage and Her Children
The Underpants
An Empty Plate…Grand Boeuf
If We Are Women
Central Park West/Riverside Drive
Incorruptible
The Underpants
‘ART’
Thief River
2004 Helen Hayes Nomination – Outstanding Director
The Unexpected Man
Come Back, Little Sheba
A Skull In Connemara
The Memory of Water
The Chosen
The Chalk Garden
The Rules of the Game
Scenes From The New World
Hormonal Equinox
Source Festival Excellence in Directing Award
People Who Need People
Tough Stains
Source Festival Best Ten Minute Play Award
Two Rooms
The Nerd
Harry Is Gone Fishing (world premiere)
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
Mother Goose on the Loose
by Elizabeth deSchryver
by George Bernard Shaw
by Gino DiIori
by George Bernard Shaw
by John Klein
by Yasmina Reza
by Frederick Lonsdale
by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx
by Martin McDonagh
by Steven Dietz
by Arthur Miller
by William Luce
by Michael Hollinger
by Crispin Whittell
by Theresa Rebeck
by Terry Johnson
by Christopher Trumbo
by A.R. Gurney
by Michael Hollinger
by Bertolt Brecht
by Steve Martin
by Michael Hollinger
by Joanna McClelland Glass
by Woody Allen
by Michael Hollinger
by Steve Martin
by Yasmina Reza
by Lee Blessing
by Yasmina Reza
by William Inge
by Martin McDonagh
by Shelagh Stevenson
by Aaron Posner & Chaim Potock
by Enid Bagnold
by Luigi Pirandello
by Eric Bogosian
by Joe Palka
by Roy Berkowitz
by Roy Berkowitz
by Lee Blessing
by Larry Shue
by Renee Phillipi
by Christopher Durang
by Jerry Steiner
Washington Stage Guild
Washington Stage Guild
Washington Stage Guild
Washington Stage Guild
Washington Stage Guild
Compass Rose Theater
Washington Stage Guild
Carroll Community College
1st Stage
Washington Stage Guild
Bay Theatre Company
Rep Stage
Washington Stage Guild
Washington Stage Guild
Bay Theatre Company
Rep Stage
Rep Stage
Rep Stage
Washington Stage Guild
University of Michigan-Flint
Foothills Theatre
Washington Stage Guild
Washington Stage Guild
Theater J
Washington Stage Guild
Washington Stage Guild
Bay Theatre Company
Theatre Alliance
Washington Stage Guild
Fountainhead Theatre
Washington Stage Guild
Washington Stage Guild
Theater J
Washington Stage Guild
Washington Stage Guild
Amalgamated Productions
1999 Source Theatre Festival
2001 Source Ten-Minute Festival
1998 Source Ten-Minute Fesitval
The Puppet Regime
UM-Flint Black Box
Buckham Alley Theatre
Comedies Ala Carte
Blue Lake Summer Theatre
Staged Readings
Captain Brassbound’s Conversion
The Voysey Inheritance
War With The Newts
What A Lovely Way To Burn
Two Gentlemen of Verona
7 Stories
Only We Who Guard the Mystery…
Heart of the City
Millay: A Lovely Light
Pius
Central Park West/Riverside Drive
I’ll Be Seeing You
Snaps: Part III
The Good Daughter
Store 24
Head Games
My Instrument
The Couch
by George Bernard Shaw
by Harley Granville-Barker
by Emily Solomon
by Diane Ney
by Wm. Shakespeare
by Morris Panych
by Tony Kushner
by Eric Lane
by Richard Rashke
by Richard Rashke
by Woody Allen
by Pamela Sanders
by Harry Bagdasian
by Dolores Whiskeyman
by Christopher Wall
by Christopher Wall
by Bernard Welt
by Bernard Welt
Washington Stage Guild
Washington Stage Guild
Washington Stage Guild
Round House/Playwrights' Forum
Washington Shakespeare Co.
MetroStage/Theatre Lab
Rorschach Theatre
Washington Shakespeare Co.
Woolly Playground Series
Woolly Playground Series
Theater J
Theater J
Round House Theatre
Charter Theatre
Actor's Theatre of Washington
Actor's Theatre of Washington
Actor's Theatre of Washington
Actor's Theatre of Washington
Uncle Vanya
The Rimers of Eldrich
The Odd Couple (female version)
Assistant Director
Nick Olcott, dir.
Dewey Scott-Wiley, dir.
Barbara Robinson, dir.
Round House Theatre
Longstreet Theatre - USC
Bower Theatre
Professional References
Bill Largess - Artistic Director, Washington Stage Guild
Lucinda Merry-Browne – Artistic Director, Compass Rose
Carolyn Gillespie - Professor of Theatre, Univ. of Mich.-Flint
Bruce Nelson – DC area actor
Nigel Reed – DC area actor
Helen Hedman – DC area actor
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