Steve is a novelist and his first novel, Iant, was published by Cambria Publishing in 2021 and his second novel, Lone Wolves, was published in May 2026, also by Cambria Publishing. He is also a writer of stage plays and has written scripts for television and radio. His television drama The Day I Played Against Imran Khan was shortlisted for the Radio Times Award. He has directed several times for theatre and adapted Des Barry’s novel A Bloody Good Friday for the stage.
Currently Steve teaches on courses in Design and Acting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and is also Emeritus Professor of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of South Wales. He has held visiting Professorships at Cardiff Metropolitan University and the University of Winchester. He has published widely on British theatre, film and television including, most recently, Theatre and Performance in Small Nations (Intellect, 2012) Jimmy McGovern (Manchester University Press, 2013) and contributions to the edited collections, ‘The War on Terror’ Post-9/11 Television Drama (2015) and Cops on the Box, Contemporary British Crime Drama (2017). In 2012, he led a team that produced a report for the BBC Trust entitled, Screening the Nation, about the impact on Wales during the production of Doctor Who and related television drama in Cardiff.
Steve was a founding trustee of National Theatre Wales and was on the board of Zoom, the International Festival of Young People’s Film. He was a trustee of Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff and chaired their Artistic Programming and Learning Committee.
