About Stephen Metcalfe

Bom in New Haven in 1953, Stephen Metcalfe attended college in Pennsylvania and moved to New York City in 1976. His one-act plays Jacknife and Baseball Play were staged at New York’s Quaigh Theatre in 1980; his full-length play Vikings was produced by Manhattan Theatre Club that same year. Vikings was later seen at the Edinburgh Festival and heard on Earplay. Half a Lifetime was also produced, as a one-act, at MTC; the expanded full-length version was first staged by Michigan’s BoarsHead Theater, which premiered Metcalfe’s White Linen, a cowboy play with songs, in 1982. In 1984 Loves and Hours was produced by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Metcalfe’s most recent play, The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers, opened at New York’s WPA Theatre in December. Metcalfe is the recipient of a 1982 CAPS grant and a 1984 playwriting fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.