Steve Maiselson

Steven wrote jokes for Joan Rivers & Rodney Dangerfield in the early 1980's resulting in acceptance to the 1st Annual Aspen Writers' Conference (1985), part of the Aspen Institute, where he was mentored in fiction by Pulitzer Prize winning authors Alison Lurie & N. Scott Momaday. In Denver, worked on "Father Dowling" & "Perry Mason" along with various MOD's, Industrial, Commercial TV & Radio projects. Created multiple cable shows in late 1980's for Mile High Cablevision including, "A Baseball Chautauqua", about Major League Baseball coming to Denver; "Disposable TV", an SNL-type variety show and local cult classic; and "Significant Women of the Decade: Rosa Parks", selected for the 1998 Santa Barbara Film Festival. Attended American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena in early 1990's, relocated to Los Angeles where he was quickly picked up by commercial & theatrical agents and secured positions with Paramount Studios In-house advertising & production with "Chicago Hope" at Fox. Rode a horse and busted down Jane Seymour's barn doors in the pilot of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" and spent a summer riding the palomino Bon Jovi from "Young Guns 2" on Jack Lilly's ranch in Canyon Country. His screenplay, "A Coffee Shop" was slated for domestic distribution by October Films (now USA Networks) upon completion and is in development. Given leads in first student films at AFI by Mark Waters, "Child Star"/Artie the Agent & Anthony Dominici, "Paco Fistro"/Milton Speiss. Moved to NYC at turn of the millennium, assisted Howard Stern Whack-Packer Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf on his last summer touring dates before his death in 2001 and wrote the screenplay "White Dwarf" about the experience in 2013. Developed "Acacia National Park", an episodic, procedural television drama about a fictional National Park adjoined by a poacher-filled National Forest, a struggling Native American Reservation and a porous foreign border. Performed "Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds" and began writing poetry as a tween, then a percussionist for "Fiddler on the Roof", "South Pacific" & "Music Man" in high school, as well as behind-the-scenes stage and production. While in college, was tapped to play Earthquake McGoon in "Lil' Abner" and then Senator Billboard Rawkins "Finian's Rainbow", caught the attention of the Colorado Shakespeare Group prompting roles as Seyton in "Birnam Wood" and Quack in "The Clown Prince". He gives an insider's look at Showtime's "The Affair" in the October 2014 issue of Manhattan Magazine by Modern Luxury. Adapting a script for a feature film of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.