Stephen Conn

Stephen is an experienced actor, writer, and cartoonist. Discovering theater in college in New Mexico, he performed in numerous productions, as well as in the comedy improv troupe, "On The Wing," of which he was a founding member. With studies at Stella Adler in New York and Second City and Improvolympic in Chicago, as well as an internship at Saturday Night Live, Stephen is a well-rounded performer capable of both comedy and drama. In addition, he brings fifteen years of experience as a competitive gymnast, and plays classical and boogie-woogie piano, as well as violin and guitar. One of his first loves has always been cartooning, and his comic strips "The Radioactive Rabbi" (about a Jewish super-hero) and "Santa Fates" (a Doonesburyesque parody of the Santa Fe, NM art scene) have been published in a number of alt. weeklies including Santa Fe's "THE" and The Newport Mercury (for which he also wrote film criticism), as well as such magazines as "Shindig" and "Guitar World," and are available as compilations on his Etsy site, Stevesfunartandcomix. As a filmmaker, he has written, directed and starred in a number of comedy shorts with "On The Wing," as well as a feature-length documentary, "Minot (Or 'My Uncle, The Author')." His short parody screenplay "Halloween 2038" was a finalist for the 2021 UK Film Festival - London and winner of the 2021 International Hollywood Short Film Festival. His short comedy script "Night Of The Living Morrisons" was also a selection in the 2021 San Francisco Indie Short Festival and the 2021 Paris International Short Festival. In 2018, he completed a five-plus year labor of love, the action/comedy graphic novel "Writer Fighters," about an imaginary super-team consisting of the great twentieth-century writers Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Joyce, assembled by the U.S. government to combat the fascist dictator Franco in 1937 Spain. Praised by such Hemingway aficionados as actor Stacy Keach, an excerpt was featured in Professor Robert K. Elder's book "Hemingway In Comics" (2020, Kent State University Press).