Steven Glavey ’17

Steven Glavey ’17 is a PhD student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, specializing in early modern drama.

His research interests include tragic and dramatic theory, continental philosophy, political theory, and psychoanalysis.

A playwright and performer, he received an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Playwrights Workshop before attending Columbia.

Glavey’s work as a playwright includes Perils of the Flowerbed (University of Iowa Gallery Series, 2018), The Poisoners (UNESCO Playwrights Festival, 2018), and Doctor Vysarius (University of Iowa, New Play Festival 2021).

He has also written and co-directed a short film, The Spectral Spectacle, for Flux Factory’s STROBE Network in NYC (2016), and a radio serial, The Spectral Citadel (2013-16).

He has worked on the administrative team at Claudia Rankine’s Racial Imaginary Institute, and his work appeared in the 2017 issue of their online magazine, The Whiteness Issue.

—Excerpted from newplayexchange.org