Steven originally started honing his writing and visual skills in Advertising as a Copywriter/Art Director in the 1990s, winning several awards for his creative work. He went on to teach Art, Design and Illustration in colleges for many years (and still does) before deciding to have a go at writing a screenplay, as he has been a lifelong movie fan, since his mother took him to see all the Disney films in his childhood.
Overwhelming Darkness has won 32 screenplay competitions so far in 2024/25, including first place in the Thriller Screenplay contest at the Best Script Awards, London, Best Thriller Screenplay - Berlin International Screenwriting Festival, Best Thriller Screenplay - Prague Screenplay Awards and Best International Feature Script - Miami Film Critic Awards. It’s been a semi-finalist in the Page Turner Feature Screenplay Competition and a quarter-finalist in the Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Screenplay and Screenplay Competitions, the Table Read My Screenplay Competition – Hollywood, and the Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards Feature Length Script Competition. It’s currently in the second round of the ISA Fast Track Fellowship.
In 2023 Steven completely rewrote the script, really polishing it and tightening it up, to make it the best commercial version possible. He is currently turning Overwhelming Darkness into a Graphic Novel with a digital illustration company in Italy, and writing it as a novella/film novel as well.
He has also been working on another screenplay, Elsewhere Toronto, with a writer/director/editor friend from Toronto and this collaboration is still ongoing, in between all the other creative projects that they’re both working on individually.
Steven is also an artist/illustrator and has produced many commissioned works for private clients throughout the world. His Pop Art style portraits focus on Rock Stars, Movie Idols and Sports Heroes.
He has also started to write about his experiences of living with Motor Neurone Disease(ALS), since he was diagnosed with the condition back in December 2020. He is currently doing research for a screenplay idea, based around his condition.
Steven originally started honing his writing and visual skills in Advertising as a Copywriter/Art Director in the 1990s, winning several awards for his creative work. He went on to teach Art, Design and Illustration in colleges for many years (and still does) before deciding to have a go at writing a screenplay, as he has been a lifelong movie fan, since his mother took him to see all the Disney films in his childhood.
Overwhelming Darkness has won 32 screenplay competitions so far in 2024/25, including first place in the Thriller Screenplay contest at the Best Script Awards, London, Best Thriller Screenplay - Berlin International Screenwriting Festival, Best Thriller Screenplay - Prague Screenplay Awards and Best International Feature Script - Miami Film Critic Awards. It’s been a semi-finalist in the Page Turner Feature Screenplay Competition and a quarter-finalist in the Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Screenplay and Screenplay Competitions, the Table Read My Screenplay Competition – Hollywood, and the Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards Feature Length Script Competition. It’s currently in the second round of the ISA Fast Track Fellowship.
In 2023 Steven completely rewrote the script, really polishing it and tightening it up, to make it the best commercial version possible. He is currently turning Overwhelming Darkness into a Graphic Novel with a digital illustration company in Italy, and writing it as a novella/film novel as well.
He has also been working on another screenplay, Elsewhere Toronto, with a writer/director/editor friend from Toronto and this collaboration is still ongoing, in between all the other creative projects that they’re both working on individually.
Steven is also an artist/illustrator and has produced many commissioned works for private clients throughout the world. His Pop Art style portraits focus on Rock Stars, Movie Idols and Sports Heroes.
He has also started to write about his experiences of living with Motor Neurone Disease(ALS), since he was diagnosed with the condition back in December 2020. He is currently doing research for a screenplay idea, based around his condition.
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