BIO
Steve Albrezzi’s first short film Fantasy in D Minor, with Alan Rosenberg and Lupe Ontiveros garnered the Best Director Award at Worldfest Houston and Best of the Fest at Santa Barbara Film Festival. His co-adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ play The Eclipse won Best Screen Adaptation at Charleston International Film Festival and was subsequently optioned by Goldie Hawn’s Cosmic Entertainment and Alliance Atlantis as a Special Event Movie for CBS. Mr. Albrezzi directed three seasons of ‘It’s A Miracle’ for NBC/PAX TV. His directing work has also been featured as the spirit segment on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The PBS series Reading Rockets – Reading and the Brain with Henry Winkler and in the NBC/PAX pilot Desperate Measures narrated by Ed Asner. His 2007 documentary Reel Lives was featured at Benjamin Barber’s Interdependence Day in Mexico City.
Mr. Albrezzi’s career began as a resident new play director for the internationally acclaimed Actor’s Theater of Louisville. In his long tenure there, he mounted several world premieres including Groves of Academe by Mark Stein, starring Chris Cooper and In Darkest America by Joyce Carol Oates. For the USIA, he directed the culminating event for The American Theater Exhibit in Budapest, Hungary. His production of Talking With by Jane Martin represented ATL in The International Festival of Australia. Other favorite productions include The Survivalist by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan, and the Mark Taper Forum and LACMA produced Cabaret Verboten with Roger Reese and Bebe Neuwirth.
As an Artistic Associate for LA Theater Works, Mr. Albrezzi recorded David Henry Hwang’s M Butterfly with John Lithgow, B. D. Wong, David Dukes and Margaret Cho; Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca with Julie Harris, Amy Irving and Harris Yulin; Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass with Jobeth Williams, Larry Pressman and David Dukes; and Dan Gordon’s Murder in the First with Ed Asner, David Birney and Arye Gross, and Ingmar Bergman’s adaptation of Ibsen’s The Doll’s House- Nora, with Linda Purl and Robert Foxworth. For the BBC, NPR and the NEA, Mr. Albrezzi co-adapted and directed William Bradford Huey’s Ruby McCollum. The cast of 56 included Paul Winfield, Shirley Knight, Loretta Devine, Jean Smart, Kurtwood Smith, Kevin McCarthy, James Morrison, David Selby and John Randolph to name a few. Mr. Albrezzi’s work has been recognized with several national and international awards. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America.
CURRENT WORK
SALVAGED
A new screenplay by Steven Albrezzi. Story by Steven Albrezzi & Kevin Goetz.
Salvaged is a supernatural thriller set on a fishing boat caught in a storm off the coast of Alaska.
PARIS
Paris is an original screenplay that journeys into the darkest hours of the everyday to discover the extraordinary beauty and dignity of being alive. The work has been performed as a table read at Whitewater Pictures with Joe Montegna, Jobeth Williams, James Morrison, Troian Bellasario, Ryan Eggold, Peter Michael Goetz and Colin Fickes. Read the synopsis.
COMMENCEMENT
Now On Demand by Lionsgate Films and Indican Pictures
via Comcast, Spectrum, and YouTube Movie channel and MORE.
Bright and shiny Christa Richmond (Amelia Rose Blaire, True Blood) is at the top of her class and the world. She delivers the valedictory speech at her university commencement, then heads home to celebrate and conquer the rest of the universe...only to discover that the next 24 hours is the beginning of her real education.
AWARDS
FILM
Commencement
Official Selection
o DGA Finder Series
o Heartland Film Festival
o Prescott International Film Festival
o Sonoma International Film Festival
o Newport Beach Film Festival
o Full Bloom Film Festival
o Charleston International Film Festival
o Cinetopia Film Festival
o Catalina Film Festival
o Asheville Cinema Film Festival
o Sedona Film Festival
Awards
o Best Feature and Best Actress, Marin Hinkle (Charleston International Film Festival)
o Spirit Award (Cinetopia Film Festival)
o Avalon Award (Catalina Film Festival)
o Best Feature (Ashville Cinema Film Festival)
o Audience Award Nominee (Sedona Film Festival)
Fantasy In D Minor
o Short Subjects Film and Video Award, Dramatic Original (Worldfest Gold Award)
o Best of Fest (Santa Barbara International Film Festival)
WRITING
The Eclipse
o Best Screenplay Adaptation (Charleston International Film Festival)
o Optioned by Goldie Hawn’s Cosmic Entertainment for CBS Special Event Movie
TELEVISION
Reading and the Brain
o 2007 First Place, International Health & Medical Media Awards (Children’s Health
category)
o 2007 Silver World Medal, The New York Festival’s International Film and Video
Awards
THEATER
All My Sons
o Alan Schneider Award Finalist (Theater Communications Group)
o The Years Best, San Jose MercuryToys in the Attic, Robbie Award (Backstage
Magazine)
Quartermaine’s Terms
o Production of the Year (Louisville Courier)
Top Girls
o National Design Award, James Leonard Joy (Set Design)
RADIO
Murder In the First
o Audi Award Winner
Ruby McCollum
o Audi Award Winner
o Finalist (New York Festival of Nations)
M Butterfly
o Audi Award Winner
TEACHING
Associate Professor, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts,
Production Division – Directing Track
(1992 – Present)
• Digital Media Production, Script Analysis, Casting and Directing Actors
• Mentored student films and filmmakers, which have garnered countless film
festival awards around the world including Student DGA Awards, Academy of
Television National Production Award, Academy Awards and Student Academy
Awards
• Relevant Courses
o Graduate Level: CTPR 507: Fundamentals of Directing, CTPR 546:
Intermediate Directing – Film and Digital Production, CTPR 507:
Producing and Directing, Production Sequence for Writers, CTPR 507:
Production I
o Undergraduate Level: CTPR 480 Advanced Directing, CTPR 294
Intermediate Directing, CTPR 288: Originating and Developing Ideas for
Film
o Summer Production Workshop: Basic Production Sequence
Visiting Professor, University of California Los Angeles, School of Film, TV and Digital
Media
(1999-2004)
• Mentored student films and filmmakers, which have garnered countless film
festival awards around the world including Student DGA Awards, Academy of
Television National Production Award, Academy Awards and Student Academy
Awards
• Relevant Courses
o Graduate Level: Advanced Directing, Advanced Production, Staging the
Camera
o Undergraduate Level: Directing Fundamentals
GET IN TOUCH
For project inquires, please contact:
Mitchel Stein
The Stein Agency
818 594 8990
For speaking and teaching engagements:
Steve Albrezzi
Email: salbrezzi@cinema.usc.edu
Work Phone: 213.740.3317
Office: SCA 434