Where'd Stephen Karam Go?
Where'd Stephen Karam Go?
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#1Where'd Stephen Karam Go?
Posted: 10/6/24 at 11:52am
A decade ago, Karam was on top of the Theatre World. A Tony Award, 2-time Pulitzer finalist, the hugely successful Broadway run of The Humans and then... nothing. We got the excellent film adaptation of The Humans, but that was filmed in 2019, meaning that we're at 5 years without a new project from him.
What's he up to? Does he have any plays in the pipeline? Another movie? TV project?
#3Where'd Stephen Karam Go?
Posted: 10/6/24 at 12:21pm
He doesn't seem to have done any TV work or have any upcoming screen projects. He is, however, a faculty member at The New School. But he doesn't seem to have any publicly announced upcoming writing projects.
He was pretty prolific for almost ten years and he's only in his early mid-40s. I highly doubt we've seen the last of him.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 10/6/24 at 12:21 PM
#4Where'd Stephen Karam Go?
Posted: 10/6/24 at 12:31pm
His last stage credit was doing the adaptation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD for Broadway in 2016, which was pretty roundly panned. None of the three movies he's written and/or directed got as much traction as one might have presumed, either. THE HUMANS movie was greeted with palpable Oscar buzz on the festival circuit, then disappeared onto Showtime with virtually no recognition. I wonder if the general lack of success for these projects -- especially considering his impressive streak as a young playwright -- has had a cooling effect on his career overall.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#5Where'd Stephen Karam Go?
Posted: 10/6/24 at 12:32pm
Hope he writes & directs another movie at some point. His screen adaptation of THE HUMANS was excellent. Just stay away from Chekhov adaptations (after adapting Seagull for the screen and Cherry Orchard for the stage).
#6Where'd Stephen Karam Go?
Posted: 10/6/24 at 12:38pm
That Cherry Orchard was bad but I can't remember it being due to his text, per se. I just remember it being a directorial clusterf*ck.
Sons of the Prophet was fantastic. The climactic school board meeting scene remains one of the funniest things I've seen onstage.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 10/6/24 at 12:38 PM
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