One Brief Glimpse

One Brief Glimpse

Stage Play · Drama · 69 pages
A promising uni student suspects his best friend in the disappearance of a young girl and tricks him into a spontaneous visit to his ex-con older brother, who has the know-how to get to the truth and the means to deal with her body if it turns out she’s really been murdered.
Written by Steven Snell
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Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2023
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition 2025

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Steven Snell
Melbourne, AU
Steven is a multi-award-winning screenwriter and produced playwright from the UK who grew up in Australia. A life-altering bout with cancer brought him face-to-face with his mortality. This emboldened him to throw all caution to the wind and pursue the more unorthodox ideas the “little voice in his head” throws at him. As a budding playwright he ...
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Steven believes that high-concept plots and strong character drama can coexist, making him a unique voice in screenwriting. He is one of the most acclaimed writers on Coverfly, consistently producing two to three scripts a year driven by passion rather than trends. With a background as an award-winning playwright, he crafts compelling roles that resonate with actors. Whether in sci-fi, thrillers, or horror, Steven pushes boundaries, transforming even unconventional characters into relatable figures. His imaginative approach ensures his scripts are both engaging and market-ready. His scripts are already being circled by production companies and he is ready for representation.
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In 2022 I was curious to see how far I’d come as a dramatist after having honed my skills as a screenwriter for the previous ten years. I specifically wanted to see if I could go back to playwrighting after quitting those ten years earlier in 2012. Rather than write a whole new play, I wanted to see how I would approach the exact same premise and offstage inciting incident that inspired an older play I wrote twenty years ago, “Keeper”. “One Brief Glimpse” is the result and is so radically different to “Keeper” that it should be considered a complete redo, as opposed to a redraft. It’s simply not the same play at all. I didn’t even refer to the old text. I started with a blank page and a faint idea of where I’d take that same premise as a man now in his late forties with more world experience than I had when I wrote “Keeper” in my twenties. In fact, I felt that “One Brief Glimpse” was so vastly superior to “Keeper” that it inspired me to dip my toes back into playwrighting.