Writer and Director

In 1988, Steven and Mike Whitehill started a freelance writing partnership providing material for television and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (co-created by Steven and produced by Celador) won awards around the globe including a BAFTA, National Television Awards, Indie Awards, Broadcast Awards, New York Festival, Silver Rose of Montreux and the Queen’s Award for Enterprise.

He’s written books, multiple screenplays including Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises, Locke, Serenity, The Girl In The Spider’s Web, Locked Down and Spencer.

Steven is the creator and Executive Producer/writer on the BAFTA Award winning Peaky Blinders which starred Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory and Paul Anderson. Peaky Blinders also won the TV Choice Awards in 2018 for Best Drama Series and Best Actor and also the Drama award at the National TV Awards in 2019 and 2020, along with Best Drama Performance for Cillian Murphy in 2020. At the NME Awards 2020, it won Best TV Series, now in its sixth series.

Steven received a CBE in the New Year’s Honours List 2020 for services to Drama, Entertainment and the community of Birmingham. He also has the highest honour from the Royal Television Society’s Midlands Centre, the Baird Medal, in recognition of his career along with an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Worcester, an Honorary Degree of Doctor from Birmingham City University and a UCL Honorary Fellowship.