Stephen Metcalfe

Stephen Metcalfe is an American film director and screenwriter. Metcalfe's career has touched on all forms of dramatic writing; screen, television and stage.

Metcalfe's first produced screenplay was Jacknife. Based on his Off-Broadway play, Strange Snow, it starred Robert De Niro, Ed Harris and Cathy Bates and was directed by David Jones. The adaptation of French director Jean-Charles Tacchella's Cousin, cousine soon followed. Produced by Paramount Pictures, Cousins was directed by Joel Schumacher.

Metcalfe has adapted both stage plays and novels. His play Emily was done for Scott Rudin and Paramount Pictures; Time Flies, by Paul Linke, was adapted for producer Laura Ziskin; A.R. Gurney’s The Old Boy was written for Touchstone Pictures; and Peter Mayle's comic novel Anything Considered was done for producer Stanley R. Jaffe and Sony Pictures.

In 2002 Metcalfe wrote and directed the independent film Beautiful Joe.

Metcalfe's stage plays include Loves & Hours, Vikings, Strange Snow, Sorrows and Sons, Pilgrims, Half a Lifetime, Emily, White Linen, Divirtimenti, The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers, and White man Dancing. His play The Tragedy of the Commons premiered in January 2011 at Cygnet Theatre Company in San Diego. His young adult novel, The Tragic Age, will be published in 2015.

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Stephen Metcalfe (politician)

Stephen James Metcalfe (born 9 January 1966) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Basildon and East Thurrock since May 2010.

Early and personal life

Metcalfe is married to Angela, with whom he has two children. Before becoming an MP, Metcalfe worked in the family printing business, where his wife continues to work.

Political career

Metcalfe stood unsuccessfully at the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate in Ilford South at the 2005 general election.

He was the Epping Forest District Councillor and was portfolio holder for Customer Services, ICT & E-government until he stood down in order to concentrate on his campaign to be elected as an MP. As a Councillor he campaigned on issues including green belt protection, the introduction of traffic calming schemes as well as working with communities to find ways of engaging the young.

Metcalfe won the seat at the general election in May 2010, unseating the then Third Sector and Social Exclusion minister Angela Evans Smith who had been elected to the seat in 1997.