About
Steven Kunis is an American director based in London.
He is currently in post-production for his first film – MEET FRANKIE – a short starring Imogen Stubbs and Anthony Calf, with screenplay written by Shaun McKenna.
In early 2024, Steven was nominated for Best Director of a Play at the Off West End Theatre Awards for the critically acclaimed revival of Taylor Mac’s play Hir (Park Theatre 200) starring Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Felicity Huffman. He was previously nominated in the same category in 2021 for the UK Premiere of Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men (Southwark Playhouse), which received rave reviews across the national press and was named by The Independent as one of the UK's top ten theatre events of the year.
In 2023, Steven directed Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro’s F**king Men, a modern retelling of the Arthur Schnitzler classic La ronde. The production sold out 96 performances, and in 2024 had an additional six-week sold-out London run due to popular demand. The production will return to London again in 2025, ahead of its New York transfer Off Broadway.
Steven also directed the UK premiere of Tanya Barfield's Bright Half Life (King's Head Theatre), and the world premiere of Shaun McKenna's Rocky Road (Jermyn Street Theatre), the latter of which was listed by The Guardian among the top digital theatre experiences of UK lockdown. Other directing credits include the UK Debut of The Refugee Orchestra Project at LSO St Luke's, and the acclaimed three-month run of S. Asher Gelman’s Afterglow, for which Steven was again nominated Best Director at the Off West End Awards.
Steven is an ongoing member of the Young Vic Genesis Directors Network, and in 2020 was named an Emerging Leader in the UK Cultural Sector by the Clore Foundation. His work has been supported by Arts Council England, Ambassador Theatre Group, Sonia Friedman Productions, Cameron Mackintosh, the Rumi Foundation, the Tej Kohli Foundation, and the Clore Duffield Foundation.
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Other upcoming productions include an opera project in Germany funded by Arts Council England, followed by the world premiere of a new musical at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.​
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