Creator and Co-Executive Producer of "Young Americans"

A San Fernando Valley Calif., native, who marks his TV series debut behind the scenes with "Young Americans," Steven Antin recently signed a development deal with Columbia TriStar Television to create and executive produce one-hour dramas.

Antin worked consistently as an actor, amassing numerous commercials and guest-starring credits as a teenager in such series as "Silver Spoons" and "21 Jump Street," segueing to feature films including "The Last American Virgin," "The Accused" and "The Goonies".  He recurred for several seasons on the hour drama "NYPD Blue," and earned a CableACE nomination for Best Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in HBO's "Vietnam War Stories"

Antin wrote and produced the feature "Inside Monkey Zetterland" (1993), in which he assembled an eclectic ensemble cast including Ricki Lake, Rupert Everett, Sofia Coppola, Sandra Bernhard, Debbie Mazar and Patricia Arquette.  The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, then played at San Sebastian, Toronto, and Seattle Film Festivals and was distributed internationally.  Antin quickly surmised that the writing/producing aspects of the project were personally more rewarding than acting.  After being signed by ICM, a string of writing assignments followed for HBO, Working Title, Columbia Pictures and Fox.

He most recently sold a feature pitch to Columbia Pictures, for which he will write the screenplay, about the "boy band phenomena" of pop music titled "The Hit Factory," to be produced by Larry Mark ("As Good as it Gets," "Jerry Maguire").

January 2000