O.G. - Writer
Directed by Madeleine Sackler
Written by Stephen Belber
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Theothus Carter, William Fichtner
A convicted killer who has spent 24 years behind bars finds his parole threatened by his effort to help a brash young inmate.
“Every cliché and nearly every expectation that comes in a
typical prison film is stripped away. What’s left is an unshakable performance, and a sense that you’ve seen a piece of cinematic art that isn’t fiction or nonfiction, but somewhere in between.”
-- San Francisco Chronicle
Stream at: HBO
Great Curve Films, Brookstreet Pictures
Tape - Writer
Directed by Richard Linklater
Written by Stephen Belber
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman
Three friends reunite to resolve painful drama from high school as each character is provoked into revealing his or her true nature and motivation.
“Steeped in venom, deception, and manipulation, Tape is a three-way volley of mind games in which an adolescent grudge assumes the complexion of a festering wound.”
-- Philadelphia Inquirer
Stream at: tubi
Detour Filmproduction, IFC Productions, InDigEnt, Tape Productions Inc., The Independent Film Channel Productions
Drifting Elegant - Writer
Directed by Amy Glazer
Written by Stephen Belber
Starring: Josh Stamberg, Jennifer Mudge, Coby Bell
An exploration of race and intimacy in post 911 America that follows a journalist, his wife and best friend, as they grapple with the blurred boundaries between their personal and professional lives and with their growing sense of isolation from one another.
“An engrossing drama…by sharp dialogue, perfs and
direction.”
-- Variety
Buy or Rent at: Amazon
SouthBay Film Studios, Spartan Film Studios
The Laramie Project - Associate Writer
Directed by: Moisés Kaufman
Associate Writer: Stephen Belber
Starring: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Chalfant
What happens to an American town when a terrible crime rips it apart and thrusts it into the national spotlight? That is the question that led a New York City theatre troupe to the town of Laramie, Wyoming, to seek out residents whose lives were changed after a gay college student named Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead off a rural road.
“The bottom line is the piece works brilliantly.”
-- Hollywood Reporter
Stream at: HBO
Cane/Gabay Productions, Good Machine, HBO
TV Writing
playwright, screenwriter, film director
Tommy - Writer/Consulting Producer
Season 1
Episode 4: 19 Hour Day
Written by Stephen Belber
Episode 9: Packing Heat
Written by Stephen Belber
A former high-ranking NYPD officer becomes the first female police chief of Los Angeles.
Stream at: CBS, Feb 2020
IMDb
Law & Order: SVU - Writer
Season 4 Episode 19: Appearances
Written by Stephen Belber
A nine-year-old beauty pageant contestant's corpse is found in a suitcase on a crowded bus. Benson and Stabler find that she may have been killed in the Everglades and transported.
Season 3 Episode 16: Popular
Written by Stephen Belber
When Stabler hears from a family friend about a girl who was raped, but refuses to report it to police, he begins a covert investigation, and the case progresses to uncover a web of sexual activity among teenagers.
Stream at: Hulu