Steve Gunderson (actor)
Steve Gunderson is an American actor, singer, composer, arranger and playwright. As an actor, he has appeared off-Broadway, with regional theatre companies, and on film. As a composer, arranger and/or playwright, his works include Suds: The Rockin’ 60s Musical Soap Opera, Back to Bacharach and David, Dixie Highway, an adaptation of A Christmas Carol, and music for the TV series Romancing America. Career Gunderson made his off-Broadway debut as Daniel Buchanan in Kurt Weill's Street Scene with the Equity Library Theatre in 1982. In 1983 he performed in the off-Broadway musical revue I'll Die If I Can't Live Forever by Joyce Stoner, and in 1987 he portrayed Joseph Keyston in Simon Gray's play Butley at The Courtyard Playhouse (39 Grove Street, New York, NY). In 1991 he portrayed Sparky in Forever Plaid at the Triad Theatre. Gunderson co-created an original cabaret show with actress Melinda Gilb titled The Melinda and Steve Show, for which he arranged extant musical material by other composers and wrote original music. The duo performed the work periodically at the Manhattan cabaret restaurant Don't Tell Mama in 1984, 1985, and 1986 among other venues. Cabaret critic Bob Harrington wrote the following in his Back Stage review: