STEPHEN WILDE received rave reviews from John Simon of Bloomberg News and Howard Kissel of The New York Daily News for his portrayal of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marc Connelly in the Peccadillo Theater Company’s Off-Broadway hit The Talk Of The Town at The Algonquin Hotel’s Oak Room, in New York.  He was also seen as Shorty in Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings at NYU’s Skirball Center for The Performing Arts.

Stephen grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a Master of Fine Arts in Acting and The Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia with a Graduate Degree in Acting. He performed for two years on the road in the highly successful Broadway Tour of Meredith Willson's The Music Man, directed by Ray Roderick, and in concerts with the Chicago, Baltimore and Pittsburgh Symphony orchestras under the baton of Marvin Hamlisch.

Before moving to NYC to pursue his career, Stephen earned the title of International Quartet Champion of the Barbershop Harmony Society, as high tenor of the group, Joker’s Wild.

He has performed on the stage of the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia in the critically acclaimed production of Shelter (based on Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths) under the direction of People’s Artist of Russia, Yuri Ivanovich Yeremin. 

Stephen is a voting member of The Recording Academy (The “Grammys”) and is Chief Creative Officer of Niche Music Group, and its 3 record labels: Naked Voice Records, a record label that specializes in a cappella artists, No Cover Records, which specializes in cabaret artists, and Monster Jazz Records, a label that specializes in jazz artists.

He recently completed the indie films, Consequences, Directed by Darren Malone, and A Life Without Pain, Directed by Jonathan Castro.