Steven Rogers is an American

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

. He is best known for writing and producing the 2017 dark comedy '' I, Tonya'', and for writing the romantic comedies '' Kate & Leopold'' and '' Hope Floats''. He created the 2022 miniseries '' Mike'' about the life of boxer

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Background and education

Rogers was born in

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, Washington. He is a graduate of

Sanford Meisner Sanford Meisner (August 31, 1905 – February 2, 1997) was an American actor and acting teacher who developed an approach to acting instruction that is now known as the Meisner technique. While Meisner was exposed to method acting at the Group ...

’s

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, in New York City.

Career

Rogers has written the screenplays for a number of films, including '' Hope Floats'' (1998), '' Stepmom'' (1998), '' Kate & Leopold'' (2001), '' P.S. I Love You'' (2007), and '' Love the Coopers'' (2015). In 2017, he wrote and produced a biographical

dark comedy Black comedy, also known as black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, dark humor, gallows humor or morbid humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally ...

about Tonya Harding titled '' I, Tonya''. It stars Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, and Allison Janney and was directed by

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. For his script, Rogers earned nominations for the

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and Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay.

References

External links

L. A. Times Profile, Steven RogersBusiness Insider In-Depth: Steven Rogers and I, Tonya
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