Biography

A Los Angeles native, Steven Vlasak is an award-winning writer, producer and consultant who has devoted his career to creating, and helping others create, compelling and empowering stories for film, television and stage, working with Academy, Emmy and Grammy Award winning production companies both here and abroad.

As the Operations Manager at Industry Entertainment Partners, the company behind AMC's "Mad Men," and that produced Showtime's "Masters of Horror," ABC's "Masters of Science Fiction" with Stephen Hawking, NBC's "Fear Itself," along with feature films "Requiem for a Dream, Spike Lee's "25th Hour," and "The Player," Steven supervised all physical operations for the company, as well as their in-house Intern and Trainee programs.

Prior to that, after studying screenwriting at UCLA, and receiving praise and awards for his own writing, Steven worked freelance to analyze and develop screenplays for major Los Angeles agencies including CAA, Gersh, ICM, WME and UTA. Concurrently, Steven was asked to sit on the Board of Directors for the world's largest non-profit screenwriters support group, The Scriptwriters Network, where he oversaw the prestigious Carl Sautter Memorial Scriptwriting Competition for Film and Television. Steven also served, for seven years, as a writing mentor on the Los Angeles Public Library’s High School Fellowship Program.

After moving to Australia for two years in 1999, Steven was employed first by the Pacific Film and Television Commission (now Screen Queensland) analyzing scripts and advising producers for subsidy funding at the company that developed Fox's "Terra Nova," and the feature films "Nim's Island," Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line," and Warner Bros "Ghost Ship." He was then recruited by Fox Studios in Sydney, where he worked during the filming of "Mission Impossible 2," "Moulin Rouge," and "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones," helping establish Fox’s merchandising operations, then transitioning to a similar role for the Sydney 2000 Olympics, where he oversaw retail operations, during the Games, grossing $22 million in 16 days.

Steven is also a long-time collaborator with multi-Grammy-nominated composer David Arkenstone for a variety of music-based projects. Steven wrote the book and lyrics for the Broadwayesque stage musical "Mona Lisa Missing!" which debuted at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival. They also created "The Fall of Atlantis" as presented by San Francisco’s Opera Parallele. Also, in addition to writing the underlying "Loveren" concept album source material, Steven associate produced, along with executive producer Victoria Paige Meyerink, David Arkenstone's elaborate 2013 Symphonic Adventure PBS Special, which continues to air across the US.

In addition to film and television development, Steven has written, produced, or directed a dozen shows for Hollywood Fringe Festivals, including "Beautiful Monsterz" in 2022 and "Warhol/Frankenstein 4D!" in 2026. His inaugural 2017 Fringe play, the Roaring Twenties comedy "Nights at the Algonquin Round Table" has gone on to sold-out runs across the country, and is now in development as a series. His wacky Nudist pandemic comedy "Disrobed" was streamed at the Edinburg Fringe, then adapted into a feature film, now wrapped and set for a 2027 release.

Steven’s involvement with merchandising also drew him to the Sports and Concert industries, as an Operations Manager for four Super Bowls, a Dodgers World Series, the 1994 World Cup Soccer Finals, and over 100 concerts at the Forum, Irvine Meadows, and the LA Sports Arena.

Steven continues to consult, collaborate, and produce for a variety of projects, including music videos, including for this year’s Grammy nominated "This is a Prayer for America."
- IMDb mini biography by: SV