Biographie
A Los Angeles native, Steven Vlasak is an award-winning writer, producer and consultant who has devoted his career to creating, and helping others create, compelling and empowering stories for film, television and stage, working with Academy, Emmy and Grammy Award winning production companies both here and abroad.
As a manager at Industry Entertainment Partners, the company behind AMC's "Mad Men," and that produced Showtime's "Masters of Horror," ABC's "Masters of Science Fiction" with Stephen Hawking, NBC's "Fear Itself," and ABC's "Hope & Faith," along with the feature films "Requiem for a Dream, Spike Lee's "25th Hour," "Quills," "The Player," "The Fountain" with Hugh Jackman, and "North Country" with Charlize Theron, Steven supervised all physical operations for the company, as well as their in-house Intern and Trainee programs which recruit and foster the next generation of Hollywood writers, producers and managers.
Prior to that, after studying screenwriting at UCLA, and receiving praise and awards for his own writing, Steven worked freelance to analyze and develop screenplays for most major agencies in Los Angeles, including CAA, Gersh, ICM, WME and UTA. Concurrently, Steven was asked to serve on the Board of Directors for the world's largest non-profit screenwriters support group, The Scriptwriters Network, where he oversaw the prestigious Carl Sautter Memorial Scriptwriting Competition for Film and Television.
After moving to Australia for two years in 1999, Steven was employed first by the Pacific Film and Television Commission (now Screen Queensland) analyzing scripts and advising producers for subsidy funding at the company that developed Fox's "Terra Nova," and the feature films "Nim's Island," Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line," and Warner Bros "Scooby-Doo" and "Ghost Ship." He was then recruited by Fox Studios in Sydney, where he worked during the filming of "Mission Impossible 2," "Moulin Rouge," and "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones."
After returning to the states, Steven served on the Los Angeles Public Library's High School Fellowship Program for six years where he mentored high school writers in a yearly nine-month screenwriting curriculum, culminating with productions staged at the library's Mark Taper Auditorium. He continues to consult, collaborate, and associate produce for a variety of projects, and has also directed and produced music videos, written narration for national parks videos, and has created and pitched a dozen original screenplays and teleplays. Steven has also worked as a manager for many high-profile events, providing multi-media concepts and show elements for themed environments, at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier, Universal Studios CityWalk, Dodger Stadium, and fan fests for several Super Bowls, the 2000 Olympic Games, the World Cup Soccer Finals, and the America's Cup yacht races in San Francisco.
Steven is also a long-time collaborator with multi-Grammy Award-nominated composer David Arkenstone for a variety of music-based projects. Steven wrote the book and lyrics for the new stage musical "La Joconde!" about the true but little known theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911, and which recently received a developmental presentation at the NoHo Arts Center Theater. Steven also penned the aquatic fantasy novelette "Loveren," upon which David's most recent concept album was based, and which received international acclaim. He and Arkenstone have also composed and recorded a modern opera, "The Fall of Atlantis," along with a concerto with spoken word based on Steven's epic poem "Alternating Currents: The Life of the Los Angeles River" featuring award-winning actress Alfre Woodard. Steven was also the Associate Producer for David Arkenstone's Symphonic Adventure, a lavish multi-media Cirque concert special, filmed at the Alex Theatre in Pasadena, which still airs across the country as one of PBS's highest-rated specials. Steven more recently worked as the Production Manager for Arkenstone's Winter Fantasy holiday concert series which tours the country every December.
Steven is also the head of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Dorothy Parker Literary Society, which focuses on the noted author's hilarious and heartbreaking short stories and poems, along with her significant contributions as a screenwriter during Hollywood's Golden Age. Steven's original stage play, "Nights at the Algonquin Round Table" about Parker and her fellow Roaring 20's Round Table wits opened to sold-out shows and rave reviews as part of 2017's Hollywood Fringe Festival, then went on to win several awards and additional productions, fast becoming a stage comedy staple.
