Steven J. Arnold Executive Director
Email: sarnold@garfieldcenter.org
Steven J. Arnold is a professional Arts Administrator. Theatre Stage Director, Designer, Playwright and Actor who has worked professionally throughout the Midwest and the East Coast, with over 75 production credits and more than 15 years of administrative posts spanning over more than 30 years of associated work. He holds a B.A. in Theatre from The Ohio State University where he received national recognition as one of only two undergraduates in the nation to present theatre research at the Mid America Theatre Conference in 2003. His directing credits include productions for The Ohio State University, The Players Guild Theatre, The Mansfield Playhouse, The North Canton Playhouse, Church Hill Theatre and Woodford Theatre, among others. As the Artistic Director of The Mansfield Playhouse for three seasons, from 1997 to 2000, he staged 6 productions per season on the Main Stage, developed new works for their downstairs “Second Stage,” and was a founding member of the comedy Improv group Under the Influence, which began in 1998 and is still performing and successful. He founded a second comedy Improv group, ScrewLoose, in Canton, Ohio in 2004. As a playwright, three of his full-length scripts have been produced and he has had multiple produced short plays, including several for The Garfield Center for the Arts’ Short Attention Span Theatre short play festivals. He also penned his own musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, in which he wrote the Book, Music, Lyrics and Orchestrations, which premiered at The Mansfield Playhouse in 1999. As a professional actor, he originated the role of Matthew Elliot in The White Savage at the professional outdoor drama Trumpet in the Land. Other notable professional experience includes roles in tours and resident productions of Oklahoma, Assassins, Carousel, The Succession and Trumpet in the Land. Favorite directing credits include The Rocky Horror Show, 1776, Cotton Patch Gospel, Amadeus, The Will Rogers Follies, Lucky Stiff, Man of La Mancha and The Music Man, among others. Steven currently resides in Chestertown, Maryland, where he is thrilled to be the newly-appointed Executive Director for The Garfield Center for the Arts at the Prince Theatre.