Steven Peros is an American playwright, director and screenwriter of film and television. He is the author of both the stage play and screenplay for ''

The Cat's Meow ''The Cat's Meow'' is a 2001 historical drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard, Edward Herrmann, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley, and Jennifer Tilly. The screenplay by Steven Peros is based on his 1997 play ...

'', which was made into the 2002

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film directed by

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and starring

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, and

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"Hollywood Confidential: 'The Cat's Meow'".
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'', April 26, 2002, archived at JonathanRosenbaum.net. Retrieved 5 January 2013

Early life

Steven George Peros was born in

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, and raised in

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, where he attended public school. He graduated from

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with a BFA in Film and Television.

Career

As a playwright, ''

'' had its world premiere in Los Angeles in 1997 and is published by

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It has been performed in four countries as of 2013. His earlier play, '' Karlaboy'' (1994) also premiered in Los Angeles where it received a Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Achievement in Writing. It is also published by Samuel French. In 2021, Peros would adapt the play to a musical. Peros made his directorial debut with ''

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'' (2011), which was hailed as "One of the Ten Best Films So Far This Year" by

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, Chairman of the

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and was similarly praised by critics Kevin Thomas, F.X. Feeney,

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, and White during the film's initial release. He followed this with '' The Undying'' (2011), which he directed and co-wrote, and which starred Robin Weigert,

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, and Sybil Temtchine. For television, he wrote for ''The Lot'' and the Lifetime Original Movie ''A Country Christmas Story''.

References

External links

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''Steven Peros'', on iTunes, movies, books
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Peros, Steven Living people American dramatists and playwrights American male screenwriters People from Brooklyn People from North Babylon, New York Tisch School of the Arts alumni Year of birth missing (living people) American male dramatists and playwrights Film directors from New York City Screenwriters from New York (state)