About me
Steven Cole Hughes is an award-winning playwright and Associate Professor of Theatre at Western Colorado University. His full-length plays include: Indiana, The Bad Man (2011 Denver Post Ovation Award for Special Achievement), Billy Hell (2008 Ovation Award for Best New Work), Slabtown, cowboyily, and Battleground State. His plays for young audiences are: The Presidents!, The Wright Stuff, and The Geography of Adventure. His plays have been produced at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, the Coterie Theatre, Creede Repertory Theatre, Curious Theatre Company and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. His short play A Brief History of Banned Books was published in 2024 in an anthology called We Can See into Another Place: Mile High Writers on Social Justice. He has a BA in theatre from Indiana University and an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory.