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More than you ever want to know about Steven Conrad: Steven Conrad the screenwriter, film producer and director. Steven Conrad is the writer of the Golden Globe nominated film The Pursuit of Happyness and has now made his directorial film debut with The Promotion, which he wrote, directed and edited. Conrad briefly attended Florida State University before transferring to Northwestern University, where he majored in English. Shortly after graduation he sold his first screenplay, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, adapted from a short story he had written for a creative writing class. Eleven years passed before he tackled his next project, Lawrence Melm, which he scripted and directed. He followed this with The Weather Man starring Nicholas Cage (which he also produced) and The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith. Potential future projects include an adaptation of the Chang-Rae Lee novel Aloft for Scott Rudin; Chad Schmidt, about a talented actor with a slight resemblance to Brad Pitt; and The Expanding Mailman with Jack Black. Steven Conrad, the track star in College: Posted a lifetime-best 7,245 points in the decathlon at the NCAA championships, with his best finishes coming in the 100-and 400-meter dashes, taking third in each event...collected 7,214 points in the decathlon at the Cal Multi-Events Championships; the score was also a provisional qualifier, and a Cal season best, but Conrad did not compete at the NCAA West Regional...took seventh place in the decathlon (6,565) at the Pac-10 Multi-Events championships...ran Cal's fastest 400 (lifetime-best 49.10) of the season at Pac-10s...recorded Cal's season-best long jump (23-6, 7.16 meters) at the California Collegiate Challenge...took fourth place in the heptathlon with 5,178 points at the MPSF championships...posted a lifetime- and Cal season-best 5,259 in the heptathlon to take fifth at the Roger Cox Multis...also recorded Cal season-bests in the 60-meter dash (7.05) and long jump (22-4.50, 6.82 meters) at the Roger Cox Multis. In High School: boasts PRs of 24-2 in the long jump, 10.69w in the 100 meters, 48.57 in the 400 meters, 14.57 in the 110-meter hurdles, 6-4 in the high jump...a California state finalist in the long jump...set six school records...named best overall athlete on team, among other team awards...also played football.
Steven Conrad, the dance instructor/DJ/Concert Producer first discovered swing dancing in 1992
as a high school senior. He was asked to do a dance with the
pom-pom squad which involved mostly aerials and a bit of dancing.
Years later after finding swing dancing at the Rockin' Horse, Steve was
hooked and soon became a founder of the AZ Lindy Hop Society. He
has been teaching/performing Lindy hop and East Coast Swing for over 12
years. He has taught at the Desert Dance camp in Las Vegas and Laughlin,
Carnage Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, Albuquerque, NM, and
throughout Europe. He worked with the Mercury hip hop squad, the Phoenix
Suns dancers, and the Arizona Sidewinders, teaching or performing at
half time. He also performed with the Judds for the Millennium New
Years Eve reunion and taught Ashley Judd aerials. Steve has also taught
more than 15,000 people how to dance through
workshops, school districts, classes at Borders Books, and over 13 years
of lindy hop classes in Arizona. He was also the promoter/DJ/instructor
for the Bash on Ash for 5 years. Currently Steve runs the swing
nights at Lindy Shrine on Thursdays and FatCat Ballroom on Tuesdays,
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