STEPHEN MARION

Stephen Marion, (April 16, 1981 - ) is an American playwright and producer. He was born and raised in Farmville, Virginia. He left in 1999 to pursue his BA at Bard College. Here he mentored under Chiori Miyagawa and Dominic Taylor. He had two of his plays produced in this time: "blue moon: (true)," directed by Marya Mazor, and "wide awake in grey," directed by Anne Kaufman. "blue moon: (true)" was later brought to the London stage, directed by Crichton Atkinson, at the Finborough Theater in August of 2004. Marion would later collaborate with Atkinson on "Narrator" which premiered at the Paradise Factory in New York, December of 2008. Marion left the Hudson Valley in 2005 to pursue a MFA at California Institute of the Arts where he was one of two playwrights admitted to the Writing for Performance program where he studied for one year under Erik Ehn. After leaving the program early, Marion went on to develop a career in producing Blu-ray and DVD menus at Drissi Multimedia and Deluxe Digital Studios from 2007-2011. During this time, he produced menus for such titles as: How I Met Your Mother (Blu-ray and DVD), Glee (Blu-ray and DVD), Thelma and Louise (Blu-ray), Blood Simple (Blu-ray), Fargo (Blu-ray), Raising Hope (DVD), Crazy Heart (Blu-ray and DVD), a few of the many hundreds of titles. In 2011, Marion left to work in the Technical Services group at Twentieth Century Fox where he was a Senior Manager and oversaw the mastering of all acquired titles such as: Cake, Wrong Turn 6, and Get the Gringo. During this time, he also produced the short film, Raymond, written and directed by Andrew Lush and staring Bashir Naim and Phuc Le. After being hit by an automobile in Los Angeles of November 2016, Marion, after extensive rehabilitation, moved back to Farmville, Virginia in November of 2017. Here he founded Farmville Pride in April of 2018. Farmville Pride has since thrived within the Southside, Virginia community. Since 2018, Marion has worked at the library at Hampden-Sydney College, been an assistant educator at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, and remotely managed the LEGO media distribution account at Visual Data Media Services. He has also become happily married to his husband, Kent Sanneman.