{{short description|American playwright|bot=PearBOT 5}} '''Steven Fechter''' is an American playwright.<ref name=IndieTheatreNow>{{cite web|title=Steven Fechter|url=http://www.indietheaternow.com/Playwright/steven-fechter|website=indietheaternow.com|publisher=Nytheatre.com|accessdate=24 April 2015}}</ref><ref name=StudyGuide>{{cite web|title=Study Guide to Steven Fetcher's Woodsman|url=http://theatreprorata.org/new/wp-content/uploads/Woodsman_Study_Guide.pdf|website=Theatre Pro Rata|accessdate=24 April 2015|archive-date=26 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626152059/http://theatreprorata.org/new/wp-content/uploads/Woodsman_Study_Guide.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is best known for his play, ''The Woodsman'', and co-wrote the screenplay for the film version starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.<ref name=ctc>{{cite web |url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/Coeurage-Theatre-Companys-THE-WOODSMAN-to-Open-58-20150409|title=Coeurage Theatre Company's The Woodsman to Open 5/8|publisher=Broadwayworld.com|date=9 April 2015}}</ref>
Fetcher grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Binghamton University.<ref name=StudyGuide/>{{dead link|date=September 2021}} He holds a PhD from the Graduate Theatre Program at Hunter College.<ref name=StudyGuide/>{{dead link|date=September 2021}}
Fetcher teaches screenwriting, film, and theater at John Jay College<ref name=JJay>{{cite web|title=Steven Fechter faculty page|url=http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/steven-fechter|website=John Jay College|date=23 March 2014 |accessdate=24 April 2015}}</ref> and at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.<ref>{{cite web|title=Steven Fachter, faculty|url=http://www.fitnyc.edu/7252.asp|website=fitnyc.edu|access-date=24 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017005118/http://fitnyc.edu/7252.asp|archive-date=17 October 2011}}</ref><ref name=Ensemble>{{cite web|title=Steven Fetcher|url=http://ensemblestudiotheatre.org/steven-fechter|website=ensemblestudiotheatre.org|publisher=Ensemble Studio Theatre|accessdate=24 April 2015}}</ref>
Frecher's play, ''The Woodsman'', was adapted for film with Nicole Kassell.<ref name=Bear>{{cite news|last1=Bear|first1=Liza|title=A Humanist Approach To A Hot-button Topic, Nicole Kassel on "The Woodsman"|url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/dvd_re-run_interview_a_humanist_approach_to_a_hot-button_topic_nicole_kasse|accessdate=24 April 2015|publisher=IndieWire|date=11 April 2005}}</ref><ref name=Martin>{{cite book|last1=Martin|first1=Reed|title=The Reel Truth: Everything You Didn't Know You Need to Know About Making an Independent Film|date=2009|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-1429953719|page=436}}</ref> The screen play, co-written by Fechter and Kassell, won the Slamdance Film Festival screen play competition and premiered at Sundance.<ref name="Bear"/> The screenplay was also nominated for the Humanitas Prize for filmwriting.<ref name=ctc />
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