# Steven Fechter

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'''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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/The_Woodsman_(2004_film))'', and co-wrote the screenplay for the film version starring [Kevin Bacon](/source/Kevin_Bacon) and [Kyra Sedgwick](/source/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](/source/Los_Angeles) and graduated from [Binghamton University](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Ensemble_Studio_Theatre)|accessdate=24 April 2015}}</ref>

Frecher's play, ''The Woodsman'', was adapted for film with [Nicole Kassell](/source/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](/source/Slamdance_Film_Festival) screen play competition and premiered at [Sundance](/source/Sundance_Film_Festival).<ref name="Bear"/> The screenplay was also nominated for the [Humanitas Prize](/source/Humanitas_Prize) for filmwriting.<ref name=ctc />

==References==
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==External links==
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