Steve Cawte

Steve Cawte worked as a playwright, poet, teacher and performer. Over the years, he produced eight of the plays he had written and directed a collection of stage plays.

He won two awards in 2012 – the ‘Our Times New Writer of the Year’ and the ‘Voice it’ Performers prize. His passion for poetry and theatre led him to become a board member for ‘Lincoln Inspired’, an up-and-coming arts festival, and the host of the Lyric Lounge Lincoln poetry event.

Steve was a strong believer in inspiring and encouraging new writers, and to this end was a founding member of Lincoln Creative Writers which celebrated it’s 10th anniversary in 2017. Between acting work and spoken word performances Steve ran workshops with children and adults teaching drama and writing.

Steve was a Writer-in-Residence at First Story schools from 2014 until 2020 and led 5 residencies during that time.