Steven Elliott Jackson is an award-winning playwright and artistic director of Minmar Gaslight Productions and its family theatre company, 3 Little Bears Productions with his partner Todd Davies and Stephen English. His play The Seat Next to the King won Best New Play and Patron's Pick at The Toronto Fringe in 2017 and his play The State of Tennessee placed second in the same contest in 2007. Previous playwriting credits include: Brothers and Arms (2010, Toronto Fringe), The Dark Part of the Snow (2011, Mount Marty College, Yankton, SD), Real Life Superhero (2012, Winchester Street Theatre), The State of Tennessee (2013, Theatre Passe Muraille), Rapunzel (adaptation from the work of Geri Gans, 2014, Toronto Fringe), Threesome: An Evening of One-Acts (2016, Red Sandcastle Theatre). Steven was born and raised in the very small town of Minto, Manitoba and went to the University of Regina to study theatre and film before moving to Toronto.