EG Conference April 13-15, 2017
There was a wonderland where we all spent time when we were little. We pretended we were great scientists, soldiers, doctors, monsters, and adventurers. I forgot about that place until I went to my...
View ArticlePublishing Day!
My Adventures With God is now available. Please also see the appearances page to see where Stephen will present stories and autograph books. (We hope to have autographed books from the website in the...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes at Silicon Valley Season Four, Ep. 2
One of the challenges of being an actor is something they don’t teach in acting class. Distraction. On movies and television shows you often have an entire crew of people in your field of vision. In...
View ArticleA Memory of Jonathan
We lost a great talent in the film business a few weeks ago. Jonathan Demme. Jonathan had a big influence on me when he was on the verge of breaking out. He had pushed past his early Roger Corman...
View ArticleThe Los Angeles Story Tour
(Photo above by Jenine Baker, from Live Wire Radio.) In the next few weeks, I will be performing at several Los Angeles venues. I’ll be telling stories from the new book, My Adventures with God,...
View ArticleStories for Theatre 40! (Sunday, June 18th)
[Photos: (clockwise from upper left) Stephen Tobolowsky, David Cheaney, Allison Braitkrus Wood, Jennifer Parsons in Theatre 40’s 2004 production of Holy Days by Sally Nemeth, directed by Ann Hearn.] I...
View ArticleWhite Famous on Sunday!
Sunday night Stu makes dinner a little stranger on @WhiteFamous on @Showtime. April, our TV food coordinator from Californication, made the dinner we ate during the scene. We ate it for TWO DAYS! (It...
View ArticleA love story. A story of wit. Survival. Joy.
Live Reading with Alan Mandell, Dec. 10, 2017 5:30pm, Road Theatre Company: roadtheatre.org/ People have often asked me, “What is your favorite story.” It’s a complicated question. What does “favorite”...
View ArticleWhy?
Me at the Grand Canyon. Not in a low-budget movie. I was asked to be in a SAG low-budget movie. I think that is what they called it. SAG has developed so many new sub-basements in their contract...
View ArticleWhere’s Waldo
The pandemic recalls the sting of several books I was required to read to my children at bedtime. One of these books was Where’s Waldo. Where’s Waldo was the opposite of a go-to-sleep-book. It had...
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