Didn’t post yesterday… sorry. Busy doing that other little I Got Fired task… you know… writing the darn thing. So! Allow me to finally officially introduce our intrepid Executive Producer Steve Wargo!

Steve Wargo (Executive Producer/General Manager)

Steve is excited and proud to join the “I Got Fired” team for NYMF 2010. His first producing effort was at the age of 16 in his native Pittsburgh with a production of “Breaking Legs” by Tom Dulak.  In the many moons since, he has worked as an actor, singer, director, designer, educator, writer and box office slave. From 2001-2008, he was the founding Artistic Director of Personal Space Theatrics in NYC. NY directing credits include the first NYC revival of David Ives’ “Don Juan in Chicago,” the US Premieres of the Canadian comedies “The Duchess… a.k.a Wallis Simpson” and “Orchidelirium,” and five stagings of his adaptation of “Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol.’”  NY producing credits include the World Premieres of “Nictotine” by Julien Schwab and “Myth America,” an ensemble-written piece by writers Rachel Axler, Ian Cohen, Brian Dykstra, Jason Grote, Israel Horovitz, Arthur Kopit, Matthew Paul Olmos, Theresa Rebeck, Julien Schwab, Saviana Stanescu and Lloyd Suh; the NY Premiere of “Murder” by Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin at PS 122 and the first NYC revival of a revised “BecauseHeCan” by Arthur Kopit. Most recently, he wrote the book for and directed “Scooby-Doosical” with Keith Varney and directed Robert McMaster’s “Drawing Jack,” both for taxdeductible theatre’s Dare Project, and is co-writing the book for “Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical” (you heard that right) with Marshall Pailet for the 2010 Fringe.  A proud graduate of Syracuse University’s BFA Musical Theater program and member of SDC and the Dramatists Guild, Steve has been fired only once, but dedicates his work on this kickass new musical to the festering memory of the fart-eating cow who canned him from that soulless two-star UWS restaurant way back when.  Twitter: wargodirects.