Steven Oberman

Playwright

 

Steven Oberman (Playwright/Producer)

 

Steven is a playwright residing in San Marcos, California. His plays have been produced in New York, California, Texas and Ohio. Last year his historical-fiction play, Herzl’s Dream,” received play readings in San Diego and in Boston. In 2021, Oberman performed his biographical one-person play, Blurred at the Edges, based on Dr. John Langdon Down of Down’s Syndrome, at the Broadway Theatre in Vista, CA. Three of his one-acts, A Slip from Reality, Leaving Shadows, and Looking for Muse, have been produced at Scripps Ranch Theatre’s Out on a Limb New Play Festival, and then subsequently produced as touring productions for San Diego schools as part of SRT’s Outreach Program. Oberman received a First Place Award for his one-act, Forgive Me Not, from Scripteasers’ Short Play competition. His adaptation of G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, a comedy set in Edwardian England, received a workshop production at the Broadway Theatre. His other credits include several self-produced productions (and in some cases he served as director and actor): Leaving Reality and Vanished at the San Diego International Fringe Festival; Vanished at San Diego’s Swedenborg Hall; Mozu, the musical (book & lyrics by Oberman) at Diversionary Theatre; and Claire Voyant at the Avo Playhouse. He has served as the coordinator for the Local Flavor Play Reading series presented by San Diego Playwrights, and has been a Teaching Artist for Playwrights Project. Oberman is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.