Steven Bloomer
GET UPDATES FROM Steven Bloomer
 
Steven’s plays include Boiling Frogs by The Factory at Southwark Playhouse (“an angry, important play” The Spectator), Bugs at the Wilderness Festival and First They Slaughtered the Angels at Guildford School of Acting, 2008. He is about to take a new play, After Revolution, to the Wilderness and Burning Man Festivals. His new play, Punch, runs at the Belly Laugh, Underbelly Cowgate throughout the Edinburgh Festival 2012.

His one-act play You Were After Poetry was produced at the Hightide Festival in 2007 and is published by Oberon. Steven’s short-plays and rehearsed readings have been performed at a number of leading theatres and theatre companies including The National Theatre Studio, Paines Plough, The Globe, Soho Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, and Hampstead Theatre.

Steven is an associate member of experimental theatre group The Factory, part of the Royal Court Studio Group and spent a year on the Paines Plough/Film 4 attachment ‘Future Perfect’. He won the Adrienne Benham award from Theatre Centre in 2009.

Blog Entries by Steven Bloomer

Writing Punch - Creating the Darkest of Characters for the Edinburgh Fringe

(0) Comments | Posted 2 August 2012 | (00:21)

The central character in Punch is the most heinous, twisted, barbarous person I have ever tried writing. He's impervious to any shred of empathy, tact or compassion and yet I agree with (almost) everything he says. John is a foul-mouthed, vitriolic, aggressive man whose favourite type of comedy...

Read Post