FILMMAKERS

Select a year:
 2008   2007 

Steve Clark - Frost

Steve Clark - Frost

Born in New York City, Steve Clark attended Deerfield Academy (1988), and Trinity College (1992) where he graduated with a degree in Third World Studies and won the John Curtis Underwood Prize for Poetry. He has written four scripts (I'LL DRINK TO THAT! THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARCO ANTONY, MEXICO, STEADY NOW, MR. SITWELL) with playwright/screenwriter Nicole Burdette. Also Steve has adapted his mother's novel, MARGA, about his great aunt, Marga Gil Roësset, a child prodigy artist in Spain in the 1920's (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry cited her drawings as inspiration for his The Little Prince), who fell in love with Spanish Nobel Laureate poet, Juan Ramon Jimenez, and killed herself at twenty-three. FROST, which he co-wrote with Thomas Moffett, is his directorial debut. In addition Steve was Senior Editor for George Plimpton's The Paris Review (1995 to 2002). He has published fiction in The Paris Review (issue 150), various poems in magazines (Salinas, Trinity Review), translated several books from the Spanish (Set Planet, by Valenti Gomez ,1997, Flor de Fuego by Valenti Gomez, 1996, Locus Naked by Marga Clark, 1995) and written art catalogues for the Spanish painter, Antonio Marquez. He lives in New York City.

If we made a movie out of your life so far, what would the title be?
GENERALLY UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR

You wake up tomorrow and movies no longer exist. What would we find you doing professionally?
Professionally unemployed novelist.

If you could have a drink with any character from a movie who would it be and why?
Rick from Casablanca

What happened to advance your film from an idea on the page into a reality?
We got an en excellent team together with passion for the project . . . (And we raised the money!)