Stephen Most
Writer
Stephen Most is an author, playwright and documentary storyteller. Films he has written include River of Renewal, which tells the story of the crisis over water, wildlife, and energy in the Klamath Basin; Oil On Ice, which portrays what is at stake in the controversy over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; The Greatest Good, a two-hour history of the U. S. Forest Service; four programs in Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Bridging World History series; and A Land Between Rivers, a documentary history of central California.
Wonders of Nature, which Stephen Most wrote for the Great Wonders of the World series, won an Emmy® for best special non-fiction program. Promises, on which he worked as Consulting Writer and Researcher, won Emmys® for best documentary and outstanding background analysis and research. The Bridge So Far: A Suspense Story, which he scripted, won a best-documentary Emmy®.
Berkeley in the Sixties, which Most co-wrote, received an Academy Award nomination. He was Consulting Writer for Mothers of the Plaza and Freedom on my Mind as well as Promises, all of which also received Academy Award nominations. As a playwright, Most is the author of Medicine Show, Raven’s Seed, Watershed, A Free Country and Forces of Nature. His book River of Renewal, Myth and History in the Klamath Basin was published by the University of Washington Press and the Oregon Historical Society Press in 2006. He is currently writing a biographical film about Aldo Leopold.
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