Steve Burch is a prolific playwright, scholar, and theatre artist whose career spans over four decades and more than 220 productions. A founding member of the Playwrighting Unit at NYC’s T. Schreiber Studio, he has written 51 plays, including Compliments of the House (Lincoln Center), Love Nor Money (NYFA grant), and Charon the Ferryman (Samuel French Critics Choice). His recent works include Though the Heavens May Fall, based on the Scottsboro Boys trials, and Is My Verse Alive?, exploring Emily Dickinson’s correspondence.

As Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, Burch taught theatre history and playwriting, co-directed the Rude Mechanicals Shakespeare company, and chaired key committees at the Southeastern Theatre Conference. His scholarship includes Andrew P. Wilson and the Early Irish and Scottish National Theatres and co-editing Stanislavsky in Ireland, both launched in Dublin with support from President Michael Higgins.

Burch’s writing spans genres—short fiction (Nor’Easters), poetry (Bog Man, Neap Tide), and screenplays (The Equalizer, Kate and Allie). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors Equity, and SAG-AFTRA. Currently based in Rhode Island, he continues to write, with recent projects including Snug Harbor, A Blade of Grass, and an impressionist biography of Shakespeare, A Player’s Hide.