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Biography #2 (for Igby Goes Down)

Burr Steers was born in Washington D.C., and is a graduate of N.Y.U. (B.P.A.)

As an actor, his primary training came from Sandy Meisner, though he also studied with Stella Adler and Charles Ludlam. In the mid-eighties, he worked off-Broadway at venues such as the Actor's Playhouse and the Provincetown Playhouse. As a founding member of New York's Anti-Theater in the late eighties, he was able to relocate to Los Angeles in the early nineties and form the Evidence Room Theater Project.

Burr has directed numerous plays in Los Angeles – notably his critically acclaimed production of Tennessee William's Vieux Carre at the Los Angeles Playhouse in 1993.

In film, Burr has worked as an actor for Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs), Martin Scorsese (Naked in New York), and, most recently, Whit Stillman (The Last Days of Disco).

Burr first gained attention as a writer for his performance pieces The Pregnant Man and A Fragile Kind of Violence, which he performed at the Kitchen in New York City. Igby Goes Down is his first full-length screenplay. Burr also recently wrote How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Number One Girl.

Bio courtesy MGM for "Igby Goes Down" (05-Oct-2002)

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