Steve Carter

Steve Carter received the Living Legend Award at the 2001 National Black Theatre Festival. He was Victory Gardens Theater’s first playwright-in-residence beginning in 1981, and has also served as playwright-in-residence at George Mason University. Carter’s Pecong (winner of the Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work) premiered at Victory Gardens in the l989-1990 season and received subsequent productions at London’s Tricycle Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and Newark Symphony Hall. His plays Eden (winner of an Outer Critics Circle Award, an Audelco Award, and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award ) and Nevis Mountain Dew received Midwest premieres, and Dame Lorraine, House of Shadows, Shoot Me While I’m Happy, Spiele ’36 or The Fourth Medal and Root Causes all premiered at Victory Gardens. Carter has recently finished a draft of his new play Paradise and is currently teaching writing workshops at the Restoration Center for Arts and Culture in Brooklyn.

Recently, as a recipient of the Living Legend Award form the National Black Theater Festival, he continues consulting and teaching eight young playwrights.  His Nevis Mountain Dew is currently being produced at Town Street Theater in Los Angeles; two concert readings of Spiele '36 or The Fourth Medal will be produced this June by Michelle Swanson and Larry George at the National Time Trials for the Olympic Track and Field Team.  Eden continues to be produced all over the world. 

Plays: 

One Last Look, l967

Terraces, l974

Eden, 1975

Nevis Mountain Dew, l978

Dame Lorraine, l981

House of Shadows, l984

The Inaugural Tea, l984

Mirage, l984

Primary Colors, l984

Shoot Me While I’m Happy, l986

Walking Graffiti, l988

Pecong, l990

Spiele ’36 or The Fourth Medal, l991

Root Causes, l997

Paradise, 2004