Director/Producer

Stephen directed more than 20 Globe Trekker episodes starting in 1994 through to the 20th anniversary episode in 2014, from the mountainous wilds of North India to the jungles of Paraguay and to the most remote inhabited place on earth – Easter Island.  

Born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1960, Stephen graduated from Boston College with an BA in Art History and in 1983 he moved to the UK to attend the London International Film School, where he made his first Drama Short, Highway Hotel, an enigmatic work inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. 

Remaining in the UK, Stephen began his directing career making music videos for bands like Black Sabbath and Dr. & The Medics, including the video for the number one hit single Spirit In The Sky.  Stephen has directed and written successful shows for many UK and USA broadcasters including the BBC, ITV, RTE, C4, Discovery, PBS and MTV.  He directed programmes for Channel 4’s flagship Arts series Without Walls and documentaries for Channel 4’s ground-breaking, OUT series.  Stephen directed multiple stories for the classic UK cult series Eurotrash, and he took high profile comedy entertainers on the road with the popular UK series’, Graham Norton’s Unzipped (C4), Dom Joly’s Happy Hour (Sky 1) and New York Festivals award winner, Paul O’Grady’s America (ITV). 

Building on his comedy credentials he directed the feature film Rhythm and Blues, a campy cult comedy set in the seedy underworld of London’s gay male escorts which premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2000.  

For a brief period, Stephen took up residence in Belfast, Northern Ireland where he developed, directed and wrote for an eclectic mix of drama and comedy for Irish and British TV, including the alternative comedy travel series How Low Can You Go (featuring Baz Ashmawy), several episodes of the Irish language youth Drama, Seacht, and the Irish Crime Drama series Maru.  

Stephen continued to work in the factual realm as well, exploring worlds as diverse as Irish dance (Jigs and Wigs), Organic farming (California Woofing – TG4) and the IRA (The Bombers). 

His most notable documentaries include Confessions of An IRA Informer (BBC), the IFTA nominated series Death Duties (RTE) - a profile of the Irish State pathologist Marie Cassidy, and Come Fly With Me, The Real Story of Pan Am, featuring narration by Honor Blackman (BBC, BBC America).

Stephen produced and directed a six -part history series detailing the power struggle between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe entitled, Ottomans and Christians for Discovery Europe, and several episodes of the Bloomberg TV art series Brilliant Ideas. 

His most recent directing credits include Penelope Keith’s Hidden Coastal Villages for Channel 4, Clive Myrie’s Italian Road Trip for the BBC and episodes of the popular ‘True Crime’ drama doc. series’, Bodycam, See No Evil and American Monster for Discovery’s ID Channel.