Stephen Fedo

Stephen Fedo has been a proud member of the Piven Theatre Workshop community for more than two decades, training extensively with Joyce and Byrne Piven, writing and directing plays for the Piven stage, and serving as Piven’s Literary Manager. His Piven playwriting and directing credits include adaptations of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Gogol’s Nose and Overcoat, as well as adaptations of short stories by Chekhov, Singer, Malamud and others for several productions directed by Joyce Piven. He co-authored A Home on the Lake and Black Ballerina, both co-productions of Fleetwood-Jourdain and Piven, and the latter play has also been produced by Pittsburgh Public Theater. Other playwriting credits include adaptations of Jane Austen’s Emma for Reverie and Hofmannsthal’s Elektra for Rogue. As an actor, he appeared at Piven in Ivanov, The Darling, and The Good Doctor. Other acting credits include: Blue/Orange, A Number, and Scenes from an Execution (Runcible); Hamlet (Midsommer Flight); Hay Fever and Murder in the Cathedral (City Lit), The Winter’s Tale (Back Room Shakespeare Project), as well as appearances with Red Theater, Halcyon, and Dream Theater. A former college instructor of literature and writing in New York, he practiced law in Chicago for more than forty years.