Steve Koren

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Steven Wayne Koren is an American screenwriter. He was one of the writers for the movies Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty, Click, Superstar, and A Night at the Roxbury, and wrote for Saturday Night Live and Seinfeld.

Koren grew up in Queens, New York and attended Cardozo High School in Bayside Queens where early on he exhibited a talent for the dramatic arts. He starred in many High School plays and musicals where he was a natural born star. At the age of 15, he won acclaim for his performance of Tony in West Side Story, and the following year he dazzled his school with his performance of the Elvis character in the play Bye Bye Birdie. He went to college at the Binghamton University, and he maintained his love for the performing arts.

After college, he began his career as an NBC page. Among his duties as a page was working for Saturday Night Live. He eventually became a writer for the series. Later, he became a writer for Seinfeld.

In the Seinfeld episode "The Van Buren Boys", one of the characters is named Steve Koren. He is a high school student applying for a scholarship through the Susan Ross Foundation. Koren is denied the application after initially seeming to be a front-runner. At first, the Koren character told George he wants to be an architect (the job George always pretends to be), yet he changes his mind, later commenting he strives to be a city planner.