Steve Koren

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Steven Wayne Koren was one of the writers of the movies Bruce Almighty, SuperStar, and A Night at the Roxbury, and wrote for Saturday Night Live and Seinfeld.

Koren grew up in Queens, New York and went to college at the Binghamton University.

After college, he began his career as an NBC page. Among his duties as a page was working for Saturday Night Live. He eventually became a writer for the series. Later, he became a writer for Seinfeld.

In the Seinfeld episode "The Van Buren Boys", one of the characters is named Steve Koren. The character plays an aspiring architect, whom under the tutilage of George, applies for the Susan Ross Foundation Scholarship. He instead explains he wants to become a city planner, much to George's dismay. He then does not get the scholarship, and decides to join the street gang "Van Buren" Boys.