Steven Kunes
Steven Kunes was born on September 7, 1956 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and attended New York University where he received B.A. degrees in Creative Writing and Comparative Literature in 1978. After much success writing short stories and non-fiction articles for national publications, TV legend Norman Lear hired Kunes to write and develop half-hour comedies for his company, Embassy Television. This led to assignments in the areas on one-hour TV, movies-of-the-week, a five-year stint writing monologues for Johnny Carson, and eventually to motion pictures, where Kunes became one of Hollywood's most successful (albeit unknown) script doctors, working on eleven of the most popular films in the last three decades. Presently, Kunes is the creator and executive producer of "Over My Dead Body," an original series for Amazon Prime, YouTube Red and Funny or Die. In 2018, his novel "Uncle Jerry to Win" and his collection of four plays entitled "Four on the Floor" were published by Amazon Books. Kunes resides in Los Angeles.
Works
Four on the Floor
Collection of four plays: "Hopeless Romantic," "Clock Without Hands," "Captain of a Lost Ship" and "Then Again." Published by Amazon Books.
Uncle Jerry to Win
Then Again (stage play)
The Theory Of Everything (rewrite)
Captain Of A Lost Ship (stage play)
Atlas Shrugged: Part I (rewrite)
Hopeless Romantic (stage play)
Lost & Found (essay)
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (rewrite)
Clock Without Hands (stage adaptation)
The Not-So-Ugly Duckling (essay)
Catch Me If You Can (rewrite)
Legally Blonde (rewrite)
Cast Away (rewrite)
Wag The Dog (rewrite)
The Pelican Brief (rewrite)
Groundhog Day (rewrite)
Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant (stage adaptation)
Ghost (rewrite)
Rain Man (rewrite)
Benedictis (novel)
Awards and Recognition
- City of Santa Barbara Annual Awards (2010/”Letter of Recognition from the Mayor”), Social Venture Partners of Silicon Valley’s iMagine Award (2007/”Great Books e-Curriculum”), Greater Los Angeles Press Award (2006/”The Not-So-Ugly Duckling”), Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Humanitarian Award (2005/”Antelope Valley Fallen Heroes”), National Stuttering Foundation’s Laura Pels Award (2005/”Story Reading Coordinator”), Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles’ Vivian Sheehan Award (2004/”Everybody’s In The Book: Kids Writing Program”), Valley International Film Festival’s Vision Award For Writing (2004/”Rain Man”), International Distance Learning Center’s Helping Hand Award (2003/”MyGlobalClassroom”), WGA’s William E. Kelley Award: Hollywood’s Top Ten Unproduced Screenplays (2003/”Acquitted”), Emmy Award (1992/”The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson”), PTA’s Endurance Award (1988/”The Wonder Years”), NYU’s William Faulkner Award For Short Fiction (1978/"The Mixologist In Residence")
Press and Media Mentions
Location
Studio City, CA
Author Contact
Category
Fiction & Literature, Entertainment & Culture, Humor, Essays, Biography & History
publicist Contact
Carol Marshall
(818) 927-3442