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Stephen Burleigh
Age: 60
Height: 5' 11"
Birth Place: Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
Born: Jul. 29th, 1949
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BIOGRAPHY: Stephen Burleigh produced Edge Of America, the Official Opening Night Film at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals) and won the 2006 George Foster Peabody Award for it. Edge Of America was also selected for the Tribeca Film Festival, the Hampton's International Film Festival, the Nantucket Film Festival, and was voted Best Film at the Native American Film Festival in San Francisco. Chris Eyre won the DGA Award for Outstanding Direction for the film, screenwriter Willy Holtzman won the WGA Award and 2006 Humanitas Award for the screenplay, and James McDaniel won the Emmy Award for his starring performance. Edge Of America premiered on Showtime and is available on dvd. He produced the independent film, Bereft, starring Vinessa Shaw, Tim Blake Nelson, Edward Herrmann, Michael C. Hall, and Marsha Mason, which marked the directing debut of Tim Daly and award winning Director of Photography, Clark Mathis. Bereft premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was also selected for the Seattle Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, and the AFI Festival in Los Angeles. Burleigh was also the post production supervisor for the film. Bereft received its broadcast cable premiere on Showtime in 2005 and is available everywhere on DVD.
He executive produced the adaptation of Emily Mann's play Execution Of Justice for which he won the 2000 GLAAD Media Award for Best Television Movie. That film was directed by Leon Ichaso, and starred Tim Daly as Dan White and Peter Coyote as Harvey Milk. The film was also named one of the years' Five Best TV Movies by the L.A. Times. Other producing credits include the teleplay Dinky Dau for Public Television, which he also directed, and the award winning Los Angeles premiere of Vincent Cardinal's play, A Colorado Catechism. As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway (A Talent for Murder, starring Jean Pierre Aumont and Claudette Colbert), off Broadway (Translations, Crimes of the Heart, One Wedding, Two Rooms, Three Friends at the Manhattan Theatre Club, The Revenger's Tragedy at Playwrights Horizon, Scenes and Revelations at the Hudson Guild, Blue Window at The Production Company) in regional theatres (Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire at Lexington Conservatory Theatre, Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Trinity Square Rep., Blue Window at The Long Wharf Theatre) and in numerous television shows, films, and commercials. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
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