HISTORY

Steelman returned to the East coast from Los Angeles in 2003 to create and implement the marketing plan for the Grand Opening season of Red Bank’s new arts complex, the Two River Theater. However, years before, he had already established a Red Bank connection, having written, produced and directed Red Bank’s own jazz great, Count Basie, in a series of radio and television commercials.

Previously Steelman was a writer and producer for the first interactive cable experiment, Warner/Qube, in Columbus, Ohio. In 1986, as an on-air producer, he helped to train the hosts and to create the billion dollar QVC Network. In Los Angeles Steelman was a business consultant to network and film studio executives.

In a previous life, Steelman appeared as an actor for many seasons at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival in Madison, the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, at numerous regional repertory theaters, and for four years hosted a daily children's educational TV program. You may have heard his voice on network television commercials such as Triscuit, or you might have seen his appearance on Seinfeld as Jerry's “Cousin Arty” in episode #3.