STEVE SOLOMON (Author/Actor) A native of
Brooklyn, Steve grew up in the multi-ethnic neighborhood
of Sheepshead Bay.
This was the perfect training ground for a dialectician and comedian. Steve
learned at an early
age how to use his gift for imitating accents to his advantage. He also
realized that he was a prolific writer of jokes and stories; real jokes. He
submitted dozens of his stories to periodicals, friends and stand up comics he
knew in the business. With the coming of the internet and e-mail, Steve now had
an outlet for much of his comedy writings. One e-mail full of his jokes became
ten, ten became hundreds, soon thousands of fellow e-mailers were enjoying
Steve’s humor; and so it went for over twenty years. To this day, Steve
receives e-mail versions of his own jokes from all over the world. So, if some
of the hilarious stories you hear “ring” familiar; trust me, they’re probably
Steve’s.
Using humor, dialects
and sound effects in teaching, Steve was real life version of Gabe Kaplan’s
“Welcome Back Kotter.” Eventually, Steve became a Physics teacher and a school
administrator on Long Island, New York. He left his academic career behind and
turned his attention to his latent love of making people laugh. As Steve puts
it, “I decided to follow my heart and become an impoverished comedy writer and
performer.”
Steve’s show, the
three-time award winning
My
Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m In Therapy
has met with
rave reviews to sold out crowds throughout the country and overseas and became
one of the longest running one-man comedy shows in history. Tonight’s show
highlights the very best of his writing talents. Steve has written three
additional sequels to his original hit:
My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m STILL in
Therapy
and his hilarious holiday show;
My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m Home for the
Holidays!
Steve’s shows are currently touring the United States, Canada,
and South Africa and have received critical acclaim including winning The
Connecticut Critics Circle Award, The San Francisco Drama Desk nomination,
Broadway.com “Best new off-Broadway play. Steve’s latest creation, Cannoli,
Latkes & Guilt... the therapy continues, is a compilation of the very best
of Steve’s work as well as his new comedy material. One note…all the voices and
characters you hear tonight are Steve’s. Enjoy!