Steven Bogart

Steven Bogart is a playwright, screenwriter, and free-lance stage director. In 2015, he received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Award in playwriting for The Last Skywriter in the Universe. He was a 2009 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant recipient in playwriting for his play, Pigcat, receiving the Holland New Voice Award at the 2009 Great Plains Theater Conference.

In 2015, Wheelock Family Theatre commissioned him to write and direct a new adaptation of Pinocchio through the lens of Japanese mythology.

His play Alice in War was chosen for an equity showcase production at Arielle Topper’s Summer Play Festival NYC in 2007. Boston Conservatory of Music produced Alice in War in 2016.

Several of his ten-minute plays have been part of the Boston Theater Marathon.

He was an invited participant of Gary Garrison’s Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive and Ilana Brownstein’s Freedom Art Theater Retreat, where he worked with other playwrights, designers, and dramaturges.

He is also an award-winning screenwriter. His screenplay, A Long Way Home, recently won multiple competitions, including a grand prize winner with the HumungousWin Screenplay Competition. His screenplay, The Calling, won best horror script in the 2021 Film Crash Film Festival, and his screenplay Blood’s Child was optioned by True Friends Production in LA.

He has directed for the American Repertory Theater(Cabaret), (The Boston Abolitionist Project, Greater Good), Boston Playwrights’ Theater(Ginger Lazarus’s, Burning, Dan Hunter’s, Legally Dead, and Robert Brustein’s EXPOSED), Company One (Shockheaded Peter, Ruby Rae Spiegel’s Dry Land, and Jihae Park’s Peerless, and Kirsten Greenidge’s Greater Good), Liars and Believer’s(Lunar Labyrinth, and Interference).

He collaborated on various projects with Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, James Carroll, and Kate Snodgrass.