Steve Chambers grew up in Nottingham before attending Imperial College, London. He has lived and worked in Newcastle for many years where he has written drama for film, TV radio and stage. He has just been awarded an Encore 10x10x2 bursary to write a novel.

His award-winning feature film Hold Back the Night (Prix de Publique, Cannes '99, audience prize Chichester Film Festival `99) starring Sheila Hancock, developed with Sarah McCarthy, directed by Phil Davis and produced by Sally Hibbin and Parallax Pictures was released in the UK at the beginning of 2000. Steve is developing a new feature film, Headland, with north east film-maker Sarah McCarthy.

For television, he has written episodes of Casualty and Byker Grove for BBC, Wallpaper Warrior, a network drama for Yorkshire/Tyne Tees, and a five-part network series, Zig Zag Invaders, for BBC Education. He has adapted CP Taylor's play Bandits into a two hour film for Coastal Productions and United TV. He has also written Gladio - a two-part four hour political thriller for Yorkshire/Tyne Tees and Coastal Productions. His New Voices script, Singing The Blues, produced by Swingbridge Video and Yorkshire/Tyne Tees, won an RTS Judges Commendation. He has been contracted to write a new Lee Hall TV series with Shaun Prendergast for Ruby Films and the BBC.

Steve enjoys writing for radio. He won the 1997 WGGB Best Radio Dramatisation Award for his adaptation of Waterland for BBC R4. He adapted Robinson Crusoe for R4's classic serial and has also written two series of Victoria Station for R4 as well as episodes of Citizens. His critically-acclaimed 15-episode adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie was broadcast in the Women's Hour slot. His Friday Play, The Coup was broadcast in August 2001 and his three episode adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath was broadcast as R4's classic serial for the first three weeks of 2002 to celebrate Steinbeck's centenary. This serial was re-broadcast globally by BBC World Service later that year. He is currently writing a 90 minute thriller for BBC R3 about a Geordie gangster who becomes obsessed with art.

Steve has written extensively for the theatre. Iron Press has published two plays, The Laidley Worm of Bamburgh and You've Got Me Singing The Blues - revived very successfully by Bruvvers in October, November 2002. His critically acclaimed adaptation of DH Lawrence's Women in Love was commissioned and performed by Durham Theatre Company with a second production at Derby Playhouse with music by Howard Goodall. For Newcastle's Live Theatre, Steve has written Only Joking, Some Like It Cold and, in 1997, Eulogy For A Hard Man as part of the `Twelve Tales of Tyneside'. Last year he wrote a new comedy, Pain In The Arse for Cloud Nine Theatre.