Stephen Snow

An honors graduate from the Writing Program at Columbia University, I am lover of the arts in all disciplines. In my career, I have served as a website editor and content manager, an arts administrator and artistic director, a producer, theatre manager, and a video and new media professional with more than two decades of experience. I currently work as the Culture and Relations Manager for a small town in Colorado.

In 2008, I conceived and co-founded the Center for New Media and the Arts in an 1848 building where P.T. Barnum once had a vaudeville stage, and Mark Twain played pool downstairs when it was a billiard hall. I know the power and value of the arts and arts education because I lived it growing up in a family where everyone was involved in the arts.  My mother was an actor for 35 years in New York City, my step father was John Turturro’s first drama teacher at SUNY, New Paltz, and my older sister is a painter. I know that without access and exposure to the arts our young people, our culture, and our nation suffer.

As a kid, I grew up playing in the wings of summer stock stages.  I have fond memories of leaving Manhattan, heading off for another summer at a theatre in another state for another adventure in storytelling and magic — the kind of magic that only happens on the stage, in a darkened theatre under the spotlights.  I grew up in a “theatre family” in the city Broadway calls home, and this is where I first fell in love with storytelling and the arts.

As a youngster, I began doing children’s theater in New York City and acting in productions like South Pacific. As a child actor, I traveled in a tour of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves throughout the Northeastern United States, and as far as Montreal, Canada. Later, in my early twenties, I studied acting with the legendary Robert “Bobby” Lewis and took modern dance classes at STEPS on Broadway. Eventually, my interest in writing grew, and I took that interest to Columbia University’s Writing Program where I graduated with honors.  At Columbia, I had many wonderful experiences, including being in class with the great writer, Terry Southern. After graduating from Columbia I went to work was the Personal Assistant to Tony Award-winning playwright, Steven Sater.

Life took a turn after 911. 

On August 21, 2001, I flew to Havana, Cuba with my best friend, John Masters. John’s father was Phil Masters, the man who found the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge off the coast of Beaufort, North Carolina and in 1999 I went to Beaufort, got certified to dive, and and dove with John on the Blackbeard ship. In 2001, I wanted to go to Cuba because I had an idea for a screenplay about four guys who went to Havana and how it changed and affected their lives. We wanted to go legally, so we cooked up an idea — we requested permission from the State of North Carolina to go to Havana to do research on Blackbeard in the National Library in Havana. Remarkably, we got that permission, and remarkable we actually got into the National Library and did get our research done.

I arrived back in New York on September 9, 2001 to find out my landlord had died of a heart attack while I was away, and his brother and sisters wanted to sell the apartment I had been renting on 100th between Broadway & Riverside for 7 years. Two days later I watched the Twin Towers fall, and walked home from my office on 5th avenue and 41st Street dazed and in shock with thousands of other New Yorkers headed North.

At the time of 911, I was working as the Editor and Content Manager of a website that was going to be the next “big thing” for boaters and water sports enthusiasts. Then came the Dot-Com Bubble Burst and the website where I worked shut down.

In April, 2002, I finally moved from New York City and went to Connecticut where I started over and began working in film and media. Eventually, my artistic roots took hold again and I opened the Center for New Media and the Arts, which began my producing arts and arts administration career. With my work now as the Culture and Relations Manager for a town, I get to do all kinds of creative and other things that actually matter and make a difference in the community. I love my work, and I love Colorado.

Please feel free to reach out and say hello.

Wishing you well!

~ Stephen