Steven Shill is a British actor and television director who is probably best known for his work on several programs produced by HBO, including The Sopranos, The Wire, Rome, Carnivàle, Deadwood and Big Love. Most recently, he directed episodes of Showtime's The Tudors and Spike TV's The Kill Point. Shill directed all eight episodes of The Kill Point mini-series and also served as an executive producer.
Shill has also directed episodes of many network programs, including all three programs of the Law & Order series, Night Stalker, Invasion, Commander in Chief and Dragnet, The West Wing and Showtime's Brotherhood .
Shill has also had acting roles in The Last Temptation of Christ, The Missing Reel, Kinsey and Being Human.
As a screenwriter, Shill has written one episode of Deadwood, and is credited with the story for Ted and Alice starring Dawn French.
Shill moved to the United States after directing for the BBC. He studied Fine Art at Leeds University, was a member of Impact Theatre Co-operative, and after they disbanded made theatre work under his own name.
Born near London, Steve became an oil painter, photographer and printer, graduating in Fine Art at Leeds University, England in 1980. He then joined British experimental theater company Impact Theatre Cooperative as an actor with whom he devised thirteen original shows touring throughout the UK and Europe. When Impact disbanded in 1986 Steve went on to write, direct and design a dozen new shows for his own theater company which performed in Britain, the United States, Italy, Hungary and Bosnia. Retrospectives of his work were staged at Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts in 1992 and London's Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1993. Steve was admitted into the BBC Drama Director's Course in 1993. He went on to direct EastEnders, Casualty and The Bill before relocating to New York in 1999. After working primarily for Sidney Lumet and Dick Wolf, Steve began to work for HBO on The Wire in Baltimore and then The Sopranos, Rome, Deadwood, Carnivale and Big Love. He was nominated for a 2006 WGA Award for his writing on Deadwood. He is represented by ICM and the Mosaic Media Group and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.
