Stephen Garvey

Stephen Garvey is the book writer of Feels Like the First Time: The Foreigner Musical, which made its world premiere at the Tilles Center in New York in 2026, and is the writer/creator of the off-Broadway cult musical, The Bardy Bunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady. Other book writing credits include Five Golden Rings: A Greeting Card Channel Holiday Musical, the Rita Hayworth bio-musical Ravishing and many youth-focused one-acts. Stephen’s short film Love and Near-Death premiered at the Hollywood Comedy Shorts Film Festival in 2024 and has gone on to the screen at the Atlanta Women’s Film Festival (Winner – Best Romantic Comedy) and The Ashland Film Festival, among many others. His short film Boy-Next-Door premiered at HBO’s U.S. Comedy Arts Festival and has screened at over a dozen other festivals, including the Austin Film Festival, Hollywood Shorts (Winner – Final Draft Award), WorldFest (Gold Remi Winner – Comedy) and Big Bear Lake Film Festival (Winner – Audience Award). His Screenplay 9/11 Kevin was honored with a staged reading at the Nantucket Film Festival in 2005, and his scripts Chasing Disaster and My Dead Dad’s Musical Extravaganza are currently in development. Stephen is a graduate of NYU’s Dramatic Writing Program and is a proud member of Dramatists Guild of America.