Stephen Croke ~ Writer & Director       Stephen Croke received his Masters in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications/Media with a concentration in film production from Fitchburg State College. His screenplay The Busker was selected as a semi-finalist from over 5,000 scripts in the 2001 Academy of Motion Picture's (oscars.com) Nicholl Fellowship Awards. He worked as a story editor for Global Entertainment, West, a management and production company in Los Angeles, where he helped in the development of feature films and television. Mr. Croke was the stage manager for the Los Angeles premiere of Club Hellfire, a new play by renowned playwright Leonard Melfi. He wrote, co-produced and co-directed the short film, Being Erin Brockovich, a spoof that was downloaded over 20,000 times the first day it was aired on the film website, IFILM. The film was pick-of-the-day three times in the first week, and has been downloaded over 70,000 times. Stephen has worked on other feature and short films and documentaries in Los Angeles, Boston and San Francisco. Can’t Get There From Here, a script he co-wrote, was a finalist in the Massachusetts Film Office Screenplay Competition. His novel, Galbi, was a semi-finalist in The Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project