Steve Harper (Actor and Writer) Talks About Non-Traditional Casting & Writing for Stargirl

One of the themes of this podcast has been actors figuring out ways to be successful, even when the industry isn’t making that path an easy one. It can require to go beyond our actor training and discover new and hidden talents within ourselves as we forge new paths or even new careers.
Steve Harper is an actor, writer, and producer of the stage and screen. He shares his own real life actor’s nightmare in a Shakespeare production in Cincinnati. But we also discuss how he couldn't find enough shows and roles he could connect with, so he began writing and producing theater that could be more inclusive, which in turn led him into television as well and writing for superheroes like Stargirl.
We talk about the collaborative process of TV writing versus his singular process of writing for theater. He explains the origins of his new collection of short plays recently published, which leads us into a delicate yet important conversation of race and non-traditional casting and what it means to be a black actor in theater.
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