Background
Curwood was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and brought up as a Quaker in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where his mother, Sarah Thomas Curwood, was a sociology professor at Antioch College.
Curwood was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and brought up as a Quaker in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where his mother, Sarah Thomas Curwood, was a sociology professor at Antioch College.
Harvard University.
He went to high school at Westtown School in Westtown and was an undergraduate at Harvard University, graduating in 1969. In 1970, as a writer for the Boston Phoenix, Steve broke the story that Polaroid"s instant photo system was key to apartheid pass system in South Africa. His production credits in public broadcasting include reporter and host for National Public Radio"s Weekend All Things Considered, host of National Public Radio"s "World of Opera", producer for the Public Broadcasting Service series The Advocates with Mike Dukakis, and creator, host and executive producer of Living on Earth, the prize-winning weekly environmental radio program heard for more than 24 years on public radio stations and distributed by Public Radio International (Institutional Revolutionary Party) since 2006.
Acting roles include Randall in the Loeb Drama Center"s production of Slow Dance on the Killing Ground.
Steve lives at his family"s farm in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire and spends much of the year in Cape Town, South Africa.