As one of 8 writers on the 2006 BBC Drama Series Writers Academy, Stephen is currently writing for EastEnders, Holby City, Doctors and Casualty.   Other television work include a sitcom for Bayamber, two pilot episodes of an original sitcom for BBC TV, and a series of 12 animations, Monkey and Gorilla, for FX UK.  His radio play My Difficult Second Album was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2005, and in spring 2008 he adapted Kayla Williams’ Love My Rifle More Than You for Radio 4. 

His theatre plays include Mad for It (Royal Exchange Theatre, Nominated Best New Play Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards), Clean Sheets and Bloody Games (Royal Court Young Writers Festival), Missing People (North West Playwrights Festival), Fear Of Water (Contact Theatre Young Writers Festival) and A (Gay Disabled Transexual) Love Story Told To A Ticket Inspector At Alton Towers (Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh). His production of his own play Dog Well Done at the Edinburgh Festival won the 2002 Amnesty International Theatre Award. 

As artistic director of 5065 Lift in 2005 he filled the London Eye with comedy, theatre and music for Flight 5065, a one night arts extravaganza.  Artists included Damon Albarn, Jo Brand, Boothby Graffoe and the Royal Court Theatre.  His own play Zimbabwe Boy and three other Flight 5065 shows went on for performances at the National Theatre.  In 2004 he commissioned and developed 10 new plays for the 5065 Lift - a 2m portable elevator venue based in the Pleasance Courtyard – including work by Darren Murphy, Jack Thorne, Joy Wilkinson and George Gotts: “The very confines of this space fuel the imagination…the standard of writing is so very high, I can’t recommend it enough.” – Scotland on Sunday. His directing credits for 5065 include The Traducers, The Powder Jars, Honolulu, Aliens Are Scary and Dinner With Bono.

In 2007 Stephen directed a new production of Fanny and Faggot by Jack Thorne for Lifeboat Theatre with Weaver Hughes Ensemble at the Finborough Theatre.  The production transferred to Trafalgar Studios, in London’s West End, and the Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh in a co-production with Fish Productions.

Stephen was a finalist in the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award 1998, going on to work for several years as a stand-up comedian, playing clubs all over the UK including Up The Creek, The Comedy Store and Manchester’s Buzz Club.  In recent years he has worked extensively with impro groups in London and Edinburgh including Scratch and Improvedy, and he is co-creator of The Reduced Edinburgh Fringe Impro Show.