STEVE HARPER (creator) is a native New Yorker who grew up in a house with a Catholic father and a mother obsessed with Stephen King and true crime novels. He enjoys writing character-based dramas that (sometimes) make use of magical realism. A playwright and TV writer, Steve served as producer on the final season of the CBS show God Friended Me. He was co-producer on the upcoming HBO Max series Tell Me Your Secrets and wrote for the third season of ABC’s American Crime (created by John Ridley). Steve spent two seasons on the USA network’s Covert Affairs. Steve’s short films include Betty on The Bed (writer, producer, director and actor) and Intelligence (writer). He has written more than 20 plays, which have been workshopped and produced in New York, L.A. and in between at theatres including The American Airlines Theater (24 Hour Plays on Broadway), Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater (NJ), The John Houseman Studio (NY), The American Theatre Company (Chicago) and Celebration Theater (Los Angeles). Awards include the Artistic Achievement Award from the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, the Millennium Telly Award, a MacDowell Colony National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and two Yaddo fellowships. Steve also coaches writers through his company Your Creative Life. Steve is a graduate of Yale, The A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, Juilliard’s playwriting program and the CBS Writers Mentoring Program. Twitter: @harpercreates