Steve Swartz has never worked with Paula Abdul. In 1990, "Never Leave Nevada", a film he wrote, directed, and in which he co-starred, opened in Dramatic Competition at the US Sundance Film Festival. Although Swartz did not win any honors at the festival, he did have a sweet roll and coffee one morning seated near Isabella Rossellini, David Lynch, and the woman who started the Mrs. Fields cookie empire (Swartz is unsure of her name, but he thinks it might be "Famous Amos"). A former humor columnist for The Austin Chronicle, Swartz is a First Place winner of The Society of Professional Journalists' "Green Eyeshade Award". A five-time finalist in the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, he is also available to perform tongue twisters at parties and corporate events. In 2006, his poem "Our Father" was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Competition, awarded by the Literary Dept. of the San Francisco JCC.

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