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Steve Marvel

Acting Coach

Steve Marvel, 1st Team Actors Studio Acting Coach

Steve Marvel enjoyed a nearly two-decade career in Los Angeles before returning to his native Midwest in late 2020. His Hollywood roles included turns opposite Michael Shannon in A Little White Lie, both Harry Lennix and Robert Patrick in Troubled Waters, and a starring role in the cult favorite Chompy and the Girls.

On stage, he played Tom Sargeant in the West Coast premiere of David Hare’s Skylight (Chance Theater, Anaheim) and the director, Al Manners in Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind (Ebony Repertory Theatre, directed by Harry Lennix).

He was also a member of the original Geffen Playhouse company of The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord by Real Time with Bill Maher Executive Producer Scott Carter.

Since re-locating to Cleveland, Steve has played the Professor in Life Sucks at the Dobama
Theatre and an angry motorist in the Jeff Nichols-written and -helmed The Bikeriders, shot in
Cincinnati. He also maintains an active audiobook narration career, having earned four Voice
Arts Award Finalist nominations and a coveted Audiofile Magazine Earphones Award for his
rendition of Turgenev’s classic A Sportsman’s Notebook.

Check out his VO and Film/TV Reels HERE