Stephen Blackburn
October 18, 2008. The talented and sexy Consuelo Flores became my wife.
My screenplay FATTY & BUSTER helped me win an endowed James Michener Fellowship
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Fiction
“One of the best collections of Southwestern short stories I’ve ever read.”
—Michael Scott Myers, screenwriter of
The Whole Wide World, starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Renee Zellweger.
Memoir
“An eloquent voice for Americans too often ignored or scapegoated."
- Booklist
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Fierce Backbone Theatre Company produced THE ROCK OF ABANDON on a frayed shoestring at the 99-seat Lillian Theatre in October-November of 2012. The production looked great, with well-paced direction by Tiger Reel, strong acting by the enthusiastic and diverse cast, and we garnered great reviews. I'm now seeking another production, with a budget that will support the large cast and epic nature of the story.
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When blacklisted dramatist Euripides (Jim Hanna) turns sleuth in order to avenge the murder of a courtesan who jilted him years ago, his investigation unmasks blackmail and treason, putting him on a collision course with the powers-that-be, including the charismatic, rapist general Alkibiades, who has beguiled Athens into launching an unnecessary war.
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Assemblyman Kritias (Gary Rubenstein), General Lamakos (Jeffrey Wylie), Ambassador Lycos (Drew McAuliffe), and General Alkibiades (Todd Babcock, back right) toast preemptive war in THE ROCK OF ABANDON, written by Stephen Blackburn, directed by Tiger Reel.
Photo by Joel Daavid
Fierce Backbone Theatre Company produced THE ROCK OF ABANDON on a frayed shoestring of a budget at the 99-seat Lillian Theatre in October-November of 2012. The production looked great, with well-paced direction by Tiger Reel, strong acting by the enthusiastic and diverse cast, and we garnered great reviews. I'm now seeking another production, with a budget that will support the large cast and epic nature of the story.
Thank you to producers Victoria Watson and Consuelo Flores. On Facebook check out THE ROCK OF ABANDON page.
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Biography
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Stephen Blackburn grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas. He graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Texas at Austin, earning his MA in Radio-TV-Film. He was an endowed James Michener Fellow in screenwriting and fiction 1995-1997, earning an MFA — yet again from the University of Texas.
From interviews and collaboration with noted national homeless organizer and activist, the late Ron Casanova, Blackburn wrote Each One Teach One: Up and Out of Poverty — Memoirs of a Street Activist (Curbstone Press, 1996), which Kirkus Reviews lauded as “A valuable firsthand account of a street survivor’s harrowing experiences.” The book is now available through Northwestern University Press. http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/Title/tabid/68/ISBN/978-1-880684-37-5/Default.aspx
On January 15, 2002, Blackburn was the featured author of PEN International's winter lecture series in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He read from his book The Extinction of Rhinos in Mexico: 9 Tales of Life and Death (Xlibris, 2001).
In October and November of 2012, Fierce Backbone Theatre Company in Hollywood produced his play THE ROCK OF ABANDON, a noir murder mystery featuring the notorious playwright Euripides as the detective.
Blackburn lives in Los Angeles with his wife Consuelo Flores, who has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Antioch University.