Steve’s first appearance on stage was as Joseph in his school nativity play when he was five years old…he followed that up the next year by playing “Jack” in “The house that Jack built.” By the time he was fourteen he was playing comic roles in his local Church Panto and stealing the limelight in the Portsmouth Evening News photo review of the performances…

When he was 23 he joined St. Margaret’s Bay Players as Dame Trott in Panto, Arthur Crabtree in “Billy Liar” and as Captain Absolute/Ensign Beverly in Sheridan’s “The Rivals.” But… in 1978 he joined Minster Playhouse,(MPH) and has been there ever since. He first played “Greg” in Ayckbourn’s “Relatively Speaking”and has progressed his way through various junior male leads and a few more Dames and is now playing Character parts and Panto Villains. Whilst being with MPH Steve’s work took him abroad on a couple of occasions…once to Ghana for a year where he joined the International Players, became their Chairman and directed

“The Anniversary”…playing “Tom” himself, in the British Council Theatre in Accra to packed ex-pat houses… Steve worked in London and became Chairman of the Kennington Players and did yet more Ayckbourn to packed houses in an improvised theatre in a room over a pub in Balham.. Steve also spent a year in Kosovo but still managed to secure a part in MPH’s production of “Communicating Doors” flying home less than a week before the opening night.

Steve has been both director and the president of MPH but his favourite position is treading the boards… His favourite roles have been Pratt in Peter Gordon’s trilogy of plays…and Steve was in fact runner up KDA Best Actor for that role in 2007, “Chandler Tate” in Comic Potential, “Rick” in Peter Gordon’s “Sex and Drugs and Rick and Noel,” and the “Writer” in “Ghost-Writer” which was MPH’s entry to the 2010 KDAFestival.

Steve played Detective Inspector Munroe in MPH’s 2011 entry – “Searching for Doctor Branovic” – again by David Tristram.

Steve has been treading the boards for over fifty years, and is MPH’s longest serving member of 33 years…