Biography
Steven Trigg was born July 7, 1967 in Midland, TX. His father, George Leon Trigg, was a former Navy seaman turned carpenter. His mother, Barbara Joyce (Mitchell) Trigg, worked for city and county offices handling payroll.
When Steven was seven-years old, he knew he wanted to be in the entertainment field. He often made up science fiction stories for his friends or tell stories from the books he read. When Steven was 12, his family moved to Weatherford, TX.
Steven found his opportunity to learn filmmaking in high school. A friend owned a VHS camcorder with which Steven and his friends made many videos. After high school, he attended video production classes at Ft. Worth Technical School.
After technical school, Steven decided to find a job to hone his new skills in video. He discovered the U.S. Air Force had a career field in video documentation and production. It was the perfect job.
Fortune smiled on Steven. The Air Force awarded him the videographer position after he impressed a senior enlisted videographer with his knowledge of the field. Upon graduating Air Force basic training, Steven bypassed Air Force technical school and went directly to his first station at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
Steven learned the trade quickly. He performed a variety of duties at Wright-Patterson. He worked on documentaries, field productions, and studio productions. He learned the skills of lighting, camera work, editing, writing, and set construction as well as the military skills he would need to survive combat.
In 1992, Steven was awarded a position in the newly-created Newhouse Military Studies Program at Syracuse University. There he took classes in news writing, broadcasting, video production, media law, and audio. After graduation, he was awarded the title of combat video journalist.
Soon after graduation from Syracuse, Steven was deployed to Bosnia to document the war that ravaged the country. He spent time documenting international military operations in Sarajevo. He returned to Bosnia in 1996 as head of video editing. During his second tour in Bosnia, he documented military operations in Hungary, Croatia, Macedonia, and Bosnia. Besides editing documentaries, he produced several videos used by the U.N. and Congress to assess important events in-country.
Steven would repeat the duties he performed in Bosnia while working in military exercises and real-world combat in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany, Italy, Kuwait, and Iraq. Some of his deployments would last up to eight months. After being stationed in the 1st Combat Camera Squadron in 1997 at Charleston Air Force Base in Charleston, South Carolina, he would spend an average of 200 days a year on the road.
In December 2003, he returned from Iraq after an eight-month tour. After coming home, he spent three weeks preparing to move to his new station, McGhee-Tyson Air National Guard Base in Knoxville, TN. There he would produce documentaries and training videos. His final documentary of his Air Force career was in New Orleans just days after hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the city.
All during his Air Force service, Steven studied acting. He read what he could find on the subject and studied the actors in movies and TV. His desire to act grew. When he left the Air Force in 2006, he started considering acting more earnestly.
In October 2009, Steven auditioned for his first play and got the part. He played Lord Canterville in The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde. This led to a role in a regular summer Shakespeare program in Knoxville. He continues to perform in the program today as well as other plays and indie films.
