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  • Steve Patterson

  • 49 / Male
  • PORTLAND, OREGON, US
  • Last Login: 11/13/2009

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Interests

  • General

    Theatre, directing, stage directors, theatrical production, playwriting, playwrights, literary managers, dramaturgs, photography, news, politics, gardening, strange music, the arts and artistic collaboration.

  • Music

    Tom Waits, "outsider musicians," bop, 60s psychedelia, and, yes, the Stones.

  • Movies

    Too many to mention, but: Apocalypse Now, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Five Easy Pieces, Eraserhead, Blue...just a few that knocked me out.

  • Television

    Don't watch one whole hell of a lot of it. It's bad for the eyeholes.

  • Books

    Dispatches, Michael Herr; The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway; The Hamlet, William Faulker; Ulysses, James Joyce; Waiting for Godot and Endgame, Samuel Beckett; The Wasteland, T.S. Eliot; Sam Shepard, especially Buried Child, Angel City, and Motel Chronicles; pretty much everything by Eugene Ionesco; Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson.

  • Heroes

    Working Artists with Day Jobs

Details

  • Status: Married
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Religion: Buddhist
  • Zodiac Sign: Virgo
  • Education: Some college
  • Occupation: Playwright/Editor

Schools

  • University Of Oregon

    • Eugene, OR
    • Graduated: N/A
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Major: Journalism
    • Minor: Creative Writing
    1978 to 1982

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About me:

I'm the author of over 25 plays, with works staged in Portland (OR), Los Angeles, Austin, Tampa, Chicago, Kansas City, Eugene (OR), and Christchurch (New Zealand). My work includes: (1) gritty, tough-minded plays about reporters covering war, which delve deep into politics, the relationships of the public, media, and propaganda, and seek to unflinchingly portray the human cost of armed conflict; and (2) bizarre, dreamlike plays about hallucinatory or extreme states of experience, meant to take the audience on a journey into the unconscious, that which defies logic and can be known only through intuition, feeling, and imagery. My plays include "Waiting on Sean Flynn" (Chicago Dramatists Workshop, Stark Raving Theatre, Jobsite Theatre); "Liberation" (Stark Raving Theatre, Rude Guerrilla Theatre); "Malaria" (Pavement Productions); "Altered States of American" (Pavement Productions; Oregon Book Award Finalist); "Bombardment" (Stark Raving Theatre; Oregon Book Award Finalist); and "Delusion of Darkness" (Pavement Productions, Jobsite Theatre, Creation Station). My seriocomic two-act "Lost Wavelengths" was a mainstage feature as part of Portland Center Stage's JAW/West national playwrights festival. "The Centering," a play I co-wrote with actor Chris Harder, was featured at the Edmonton Fringe Festival August 2006 and at the Boulder Fringe Festival August 2007. Chris won a "Drammy" (Portland's version of the Tony) for Best Actor in "The Centering." In 2008, my play "Lost Wavelengths" won the Oregon Book Award. I'm also a photographer, specializing in black & white and still developing film and printing in silver, the old fashioned way. A portfolio of my work can be seen at: http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=338947 I have an interest in theatrical photography, moody portraiture, and fine art black & white work. My website is http://www.mindspring.com/~splatterson/
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Dedicated to writing, theatre, music, photography, politics, and snark...welcome aboard.

Who I'd like to meet:

Playwrights, producers, literary managers, artistic directors, stage directors, and other photographers with similar interests. I'm open to helping new writers out. Interested in developing a network of like-minded artists that can cross-pollinate like bees in 30 acres of opium poppies. To further said creative orgy, I've launched the New Play Network at: http://groups.myspace.com/newplaynetwork Here's the Mission Statement: A networking hub for playwrights, artistic directors, literary managers, directors, dramaturgs, and other theatre professionals passionate about nuturing new plays, from readings to productions. Tell us what you're working on, what you're looking for, what you'd like to get involved with. Hot scripts? Writers worth watching? Exceptional theatres or development programs? Directors or actors seeking new properties? This is a place to confab, connect, compare notes, and, it is hoped, cross-pollinate. Plus feel free to upload images from recent productions or broadcast production notices for new plays or calls for scripts.

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