Hi welcome to the website of Stephen Scheurer-Smith - Actor, Roleplayer and Playwright. Since joining equity last year I am no longer plain Stephen Smith (although my plays are still published under this name) which is probably for the best and nice to acknowledge my swiss mother who sadly passed away in January 2009.
I first set foot on stage in 1977 in THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Cambridge`s famous ADC Theatre and thirty three years later I find myself still treading the boards from panto to Shakespeare and back. Most recently appearing alongside my daughter Kattreya in a delighful two-hander called FOR STARTERS playing a lonely businessman with OCD.
Being 6'3" I`m often cast as baddies and authority figures but my range does stretch to many comedy roles particularly quirky and on occasions downright mad as most recently in a student film for Anglia Ruskin University called THE SUE in which I played the lead role of Arthur who had spent the majority of his life in a mental hospital and created a doll to control people`s dreams.
Professionally I have been an educational roleplayer for ten years working mainly in medical communication skills scenarios with student doctors, psychiatrists, social services, GP`s and Nurses but have also appeared in several business training films and more recently murder mystery evenings.
Since 1985 I have written 19 plays with 12 so far published and performed all over the world. I either direct or appear in the premiere and this year have directed ANNIVERSARY which won Best New Play at the Sawston Drama Festival and most recently won second place out of thirteen plays at the Cambridge Drama Festival. Currently I am writing two sister plays ARRIVAL and ONCOLOGY which will all be performed next year in a triple bill called BIRTHS, DEATHS and MARRIAGES. Details of all my plays are listed on my Plays page with the British publishers on the links page.
Last year I played Statto, a nerdish conspiracy theorist taxi driver, in a TV pilot called PRIVATE HIRE written by Tim Boden and directed by Jason Brooks and my voiceover for the trailer is with my showreel on my files page. I also appeared in a DVD for Addenbrookes and Anne Frank Trust as a bigoted NHS manager in OUR WAY and this year an aggressive restaurant manager, Mr Williams, in THEODORA for the University of Hertfordshire. Once again bit of a theme building up in my film career as either mad or bad but hopefully very nice to work with.
