Steven Kunis

Director
Writer
Location: London, England, UK

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Credits

Year	Job Title Project Type	Project Name Director / Company	Location
2023	Director Theatre	F**KING MEN	Waterloo East Theatre
2022	Director Theatre	Bright Half Life King's Head Theatre
2022	Assistant Director Theatre	Legally Blonde The Musical North American Tour dir. Jeffrey Moss	USA
2021	Director Theatre	Straight White Men Southwark Playhouse
2021	Assistant Director Theatre	Bitterenders dir. Maxine Peake	Arcola Theatre
2021	Director Theatre	Rocky Road by Shaun McKenna Jermyn Street Theatre
2021	Assistant Director Theatre	Dig dir. Willi Richards	The Shipwright
2021	Director Theatre	cuts cuts cuts by Andrew Thompson (Workshop) Southwark Playhouse
2021	Director Theatre	Life is a Dream (Workshop) Cervantes Theatre
2019	Assistant Director Theatre	A Lesson from Aloes dir. Dame Janet Suzman	Finborough Theatre
2019	Director Event	Refugee Orchestra Project UK Launch LSO St Luke's
2019	Director Theatre	Afterglow Waterloo East Theatre
2018	Director Theatre	Cambridge Footlights and Oxford Revue Present: FUNRAISER Leicester Square Theatre
2018	Director Performing Arts	Blue Balls National Taiwan University of Arts
2018	Director Comedy & Improv	The Oxford Revue: FUNNY FRIENDS Oxford Playhouse
2018	Director Theatre	Bedtime Story White Bear Theatre
2018	Director Theatre	Eurydice St Catherine's College	University of Oxford
2017	Director Theatre	La bohème Shanghai Theatre Academy
2017	Producer Theatre	Ariadne auf Naxos Lowell House Opera	Boston, MA
2017	Director Theatre	The Demon Commonwealth Lyric Theatre	Boston, MA
2016	Plaza Theater Theatre	SESSIONS Boston Center for the Arts
2015	Director Theatre	Alexander's Feast by Handel Agassiz Theater, Harvard Early Music Society	Boston, MA
2015	Director Theatre	The Last Five Years Adams Pool Theater	Harvard University
2014	Director Theatre	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Cabot Theater	Harvard University

Education

Year	Qualification	Where
2022	Directors Series	National Film and Television School
2020	Springboard	Young Vic Directors Programme
2020	Emerging Leaders	Clore Leadership
2018	MSc Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology	University of Oxford
2017	BA Cognitive Neuroscience and Evolutionary Psychology	Harvard University

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About me

Steven Kunis is a London-based American theatre and opera director, and current script reader for Chichester Festival Theatre, David Adkin Limited, and Sonia Friedman Productions.

In 2021, he was nominated for Best Director of a Play at the Off West End Theatre Awards for the UK Premiere of Young Jean Lee’s STRAIGHT WHITE MEN (Southwark Playhouse), named by the Independent as one of the UK's top ten theatre events of 2021 (★★★★ Evening Standard, ★★★★ The Guardian, ★★★★ The Times). Recently, Steven has also directed the world premiere of Shaun McKenna’s ROCKY ROAD (Jermyn Street Theatre), which was listed by the Guardian among the top online theatre experiences during UK lockdown. He also directed the UK Debut of the Refugee Orchestra Project at the London Symphony Orchestra’s St Luke’s venue, conducted by Chicago Opera Theater Musical Director Lidiya Yankovskaya. In 2019, Steven was nominated for Best Director at the Off West End Awards for the critically-acclaimed three-month run of S. Asher Gelman's AFTERGLOW at the Waterloo East Theatre, and in 2018 his staging of Anton Rubinstein’s THE DEMON in Boston was awarded the Best Production Award by the American National Opera Association. Steven is a member of the Young Vic Directors Programme, and in 2020 was named an Emerging Leader in the UK Cultural Sector by the Clore Leadership Foundation.

License & Passport

Passport:	Yes
Driver's License:	Yes

Skills

Secondary Job Title	Writer
Job Titles	Script Writer, Writer, Script Editor, Script Reader, Director, Producer
Years in industry	3 to 6 years
Work Permits	EU, USA
Musical Skills	Saxophone