Stephen has been fortunate enough to work with many major UK theatre director/practitioners: Bill Gaskell, Danny Boyle, Stephen Daldry, David Thacker, Katie Mitchell, Corin Redgrave and Mike Bradwell included,as well as having a particular connection and fondness for working with theatre-makers from the former Yugoslavia, Ljubisa Ristic, Rade Serbedzija and Lenka Udovicki in particular.

He has always written, and the kind of verbatim- and research-based work that he was soon involved in as a young actor lead him to create theatre pieces. These include the first-prize winner of the National Youth Theatre/Texaco Playwriting competition If You Want To Get To Heaven; Shining, based on research for a show he did with Bill Gaskell and Barrie Keefe at The Half Moon Theatre; his own piece Warcrime, initially a site-specific response to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which later toured the UK, and The Daughter another Arts Council England tour updating the narrative of Measure for Measure to the modern Middle East.

Warcrime was based on research and interviews he conducted in Belgrade, Aleksinac and Nis after the NATO bombing of 1999, based on the story of a waitress who was killed by a US cluster bomb. It took the form of a trial – of the waitress – holding her responsible for her own death. It opened four days after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

More recently, with the dramaturg Jonathan Meth, Stephen created the ‘verbatim and eat’ piece Two Schmucks, Three Opinions, looking at issues around the relationship of Jews to Israel and their wider radicalism and internationalism.

Unsurprisingly, Stephen has felt the influence of Brecht through most of his professional life.

Stephen also produced The Vagina Monologues in the UK between its inception in 1997 and its long-running location in the West End at the Arts and Ambassadors Theatres. He worked closely with Eve Ensler and designer Bunny Christie to turn it from a one-woman ‘Off Broadway’ cult piece into a fully accessible theatre event that has travelled the world from Congo to the Antarctic. Steve’s partner Chrissie also worked alongside to give the charity/campaigning arm of The Vagina Monologues –  V-Day – its real legs with a sell-out all-star performance at the Old Vic and a second at The Royal Albert Hall a year later.