Steve Geary

Steve Geary was born in Gloucester, MA on Boston's North Shore. His career in the arts began at seven years of age when a local dance teacher saw him showing off walking on his hands outside the picture window at the front of her studio. She brought him inside, called his parents, and told them that he was taking dance class. He quickly showed both aptitude and passion, learning not only how to tumble, but ballroom, tap, jazz, and ballet. With her support he received training from some of the greats: Lee Theodore, Gus Giordano, Luigi, among many others. She also put him in touch with The Golds a locally prominent dance family, and many instructors from Boston Ballet. By the time he reached the age of sixteen he had already appeared in television commercials, on Dick Clark's American Bandstand Dance Contest, and Star Search.

While still in high school he discovered his love for musical theatre, traveling to New York to audition alongside adults and getting very close to booking gigs in Meet Me in St Louis and Jerome Robbins Broadway. Immediately after earning his High School diploma, he left Boston and moved to New York. He won a scholarship to Steps 74 and spent his first year earning his living in business and regional theatre.
His first big contract came at the age of nineteen when he booked a job as a swing for the newly mounted Radio City Easter Show with Wayne Cilento. He covered 14 singer and dancer tracks. The week before the show opened one of the performers broke his leg, so Steve stepped in and performed as The Big Bad Wolf and other roles for the rest of the run. He spent the next two years working at Radio City and continuing to build his resume and reputation in regional theatre.
After a summer club gig in Monte Carlo performing with Shirley MacLaine, Harry Belafonte, Donna Summer, Jerry Lewis and many other legends, Steve returned home and booked his first Equity Production contract touring with Ted Neely, Carl Anderson, Irene Cara, and Dennis DeYoung in Jesus Christ Superstar. This lead to a continuous stream of Equity Touring and Broadway gigs: Miss Saigon, Cats(Macavity), Contact, Aida (Radames U/S), The Producers. During that time he pursued his love of photography, creative writing at Columbia University, and Classical Theatre with Randy Kim and Anne Occhiogrosso.
Steve lived in Los Angeles from 2003 until 2010, where he worked on Adam and Steve, playing the role of Andy. He was also invited by Susan Stroman to appear in The Producers movie. While there he studied Miesner technique with Playhouse West, commercial technique with June Chandler, and on camera with Brian Riese Studios.
At this time he took his first foray outside of performing, managing Crate and Barrel locations at The Grove and in Canoga Park. Previous to this his only "real world job" had been selling tickets at a fair one day when he was twelve. He commuted year round on his Vespa 150 and '86 Honda Rebel 450 motorcycle. He also attended Le Cordon Bleu's new school, The Kitchen Academy and cooked professionally in all of the outlets at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel for three years.
Realizing how much he missed his life on the stage he moved back to the East Coast in 2011. Almost immediately he was cast as Will Parker in Oklahoma and soon after that in the First National Tour of The Addams Family Musical.
Most recently Steve has appeared in both Hello Dolly and Damn Yankees at Goodsped, and as a guest artist with Amercan Dance Machine 21 at The Joyce. He has an ongoing relationship with The Shanghai Theatre Academy in China where he has directed Grease and Thoroughly Modern Millie, musically staged Sweeney Todd, and has organized and costaged the China premiere of Susan Stroman's Contact.