Steven Fales

Steven Heard Fales (born March 17, 1970) is a classically trained playwright and actor who has gained broad recognition in both the theatre world gay community and the LDS community for his award-winning one-man play, Confessions of a Mormon Boy.

Performance

The first reading of Confessions was at the Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City in 2001.[1] He has performed the play off-Broadway (under director Jack Hofsiss) and across the United States and internationally at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and London's West End.[2][3][4][5] He uses his experiences to help others to reclaim spirituality and his work is his contribution to helping end spiritual abuse and violence in churches, mosques and synagogues. The book 'Confessions of a Mormon Boy: Behind the Scenes of the Off-Broadway Hit' was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Before becoming a solo artist he performed in Shakespeare and musicals in regional theatres across America.

'Confessions of a Mormon Boy' is Part One in 'The Mormon Boy Trilogy.' Part Two and Three are called 'Missionary Position' and 'Prodigal Dad.'[3] Mormon-American Princess is his cabaret act and deals with the subject of narcissism. It premiered in San Francisco and has played Joe's Pub, New York City. Other solo shows include 'Conversations with Heavenly Mother: An Uncommon Diva', 'Joseph III', 'CULT!', and 'When All Else Fales.' He is a leader in the solo performance genre and is the founder of the Solo Performance Alliance.[6]

Personal life

Fales was born in Provo, Utah and raised in California and later Las Vegas, Nevada. He first trained at the Boston Conservatory on scholarship and after serving a two-year mission for the LDS Church in Portugal transferred to Brigham Young University where he received his BFA in musical theatre.[2][3] He received his MFA in acting from the University of Connecticut.[4] He has further trained at The American Comedy Institute and has studied privately with acting coach Larry Moss.

He lives in Salt Lake City with his two children where he exports his work from the Rocky Mountains to Los Angeles, New York, and London. He is the former son-in-law of celebrated Mormon writer Carol Lynn Pearson and former husband of actor/writer/producer Emily Pearson.[1]

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Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brandon Griggs (November 18, 2001). "In 'Mormon Boy,' A Fond Farewell To the Faith". Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jason Zinoman (February 8, 2006). "Gay Escort: Hunky, Likes Vaudeville, Mormon Background". New York Times. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Celia Wren (January 21, 2014). "Keen sense of the absurd leavens gravity of Steven Fales’s powerful ‘Mormon Boy Trilogy’". Washington Post. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Scott Harrah (March 1–7, 2006). "Live, from Utah, a story of survival". The Villager 75 (41). Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  5. ↑ "Steven Fales' Mormon Boy to Confess on London's West End". Broadway Buzz. Broadway.com. August 10, 2011. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  6. ↑ Henrik Eger (August 12, 2014). "From Mormon Boy to Rent Boy: Interview with solo performer Steven Fales". phindie. Retrieved 2014-08-13.

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