Stephen Belber was born on March 3,1967 and is an American playwright, screenwriter and film director.
18 Facts About Stephen Belber
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Stephen Belber's plays have been produced on Broadway and in over 50 countries.
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Stephen Belber directed the film adaptation of his Broadway play Match, starring Patrick Stewart.
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Stephen Belber created the Netflix series The Madness, starring Colman Domingo, Marsha Stephanie Blake, and John Ortiz and wrote and directed What We Do Next, starring Michelle Veintimilla, Karen Pittman, and Corey Stoll.
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Stephen Belber wrote and directed the film Management, starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson, and wrote the HBO film OG.
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Stephen Belber was born in Washington, DC He studied philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, graduating in 1989.
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Stephen Belber moved to New York in 1992 and held a variety of jobs including waiter, substitute teacher, and wire service operator for the United Nations.
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Stephen Belber's first show in New York was a solo piece titled Psychotic Busboy Blues followed by two more one-man shows, Eclectic Mulatto Moondance and One Million Butterflies.
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Stephen Belber attended the Playwrights Horizons Theater School and in 1994 he was accepted to the playwriting program at The Juilliard School, where in his second year his full-length play, The Broken Fall, was produced as part of the 4th year repertory.
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Stephen Belber then wrote the screenplay for the 2001 film adaptation of Tape, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Robert Sean Leonard.
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Stephen Belber received an Emmy nomination for his work as a writer on the film.
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Stephen Belber wrote for the Denis Leary show Rescue Me.
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Stephen Belber's other plays include The Transparency of Val, The Wake, Through Fred, The Death of Frank, Mel and Gene, Drifting Elegant, and Finally.
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Stephen Belber wrote and directed the film Management, starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008.
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Stephen Belber wrote and directed Match, starring Patrick Stewart, Matthew Lillard and Carla Gugino, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014.
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Stephen Belber was a writer and consulting producer for the CBS TV show Tommy, starring Edie Falco.
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Stephen Belber wrote and directed the 2022 film What We Do Next, starring Michelle Veintimilla, Karen Pittman, and Corey Stoll.
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Stephen Belber created the 2024 Netflix television series, The Madness, starring Colman Domingo, Marsha Stephanie Blake, and John Ortiz.