Raised in the Riverdale section of New York City, Steven later attended NYU, Hunter, and The New School. Steven began performing as Steven, including professional acting roles on stage and in film.

Then he started doing cabaret shows at "Don't Tell Mama". His voice is like a high baritone or low tenor. But even then he did Barbra. He did also the Pioneer thing, a fictitious album which he and Chris Denny created, in which "Barbra," singing Home on the Range and other songs, salutes the nation's Pilgrim Fathers.

From that, the Barbra thing evolved slowly. The tradition of men, as actors, playing women's roles dates back to church plays of the Middle Ages, cresting in Shakespeare's Elizabethan theater. Then, in the 1960s, there were people like Charles Pierce and Jim Bailey that played in top venues. After Stonewall, there was a drag explosion with a lot of people doing just lip-syncing and their performances weren't a family thing.

As good as Steven is as an impersonator, that's only half of it. He writes the whole show, all his words. He has this active, bright, knowledgeable mind, his writer's mind, riffing and spinning on whatever he chooses to do. He is able to create something new on the spot, or able to adjust the show from week to week.

Steven has said that he'd love to appear some day with Barbra herself.