Steven Peros is an award-winning, twice-published Samuel French playwright, with credits in Film, Television, and Theatre. His research into a mysterious 1924 death on board William Randolph Hearst's yacht (in the company of Charlie Chaplin, Marion Davies, and Louella Parsons), led to his original screenplay, The Cat's Meow directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard, Edward Herrmann, Cary Elwes and Jennifer Tilly. The film screened to much acclaim at film festivals worldwide and appeared on a dozen year-end “Ten Best” lists, including Film Comment and U.S. major dailies. The 1997 Los Angeles World Premiere of The Cat's Meow, his play on the same topic, had an extended nine-week run, garnering rave reviews from The Los Angeles Times, Daily Variety, CBS Radio, and many others in the print and radio press. The stage play has since been published by Samuel French. Steven has just completed directing a second independent feature, The Undying, a romantic thriller with supernatural overtones, starring Emmy nominee Robin Weigert, and Avatar’s Wes Studi.

In 1994, Steven directed the Los Angeles World Premiere of his full-length play, Karlaboy, a ghost story set against the studio system of 1950’s Hollywood, for which he received a Drama-Logue Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Writing. It has also been published by Samuel French. Also in the Old Hollywood vein, Steven penned three episodes of AMC’s Emmy-award winning 2001 comedy series, The Lot.
Steven is a graduate of New York University's Film School where he wrote and directed a half-hour film, Old Clowns Don't Bite, which received a then-record five awards at the school's prestigious film festival including Best Director, Screenplay, and a Judge's Citation for Achievement in Black Comedy. It was televised as part of the PBS series, Off Hollywood.

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