Some Background

Steven L. Rosenhaus started acting twice, maybe three times. The first time, he was around 9 years old, taking a beginning acting class at a place called Colosseum Studios near Times Square, where his teachers were a very pre-Kojak Telly Savalas and John Cassavetes. Despite the quality of the teachers acting didn't take with Steven the first time. Cut to some 40 years ago. Steven and a friend work as unpaid extras in the film “The Lottery” along with several hundred others at the Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum, just for fun.

A few years later, Rosenhaus was on his way into NYU to hand in grades for his music theory class when he had to move through a crowd on the street. Two things happened at once: he saw a camera on a crane, and a guy with a walkie-talkie (a Production Assistant or “PA”) yelled at him to “move over there.” Steven realized there was a film shoot of some sort going on of course and tried to explain to the PA, but the PA wasn't having it, thinking Steven was an actor in the crowd scene being filmed for the movie “Rude Awakening.” With a mental shrug Steven decided to go with it. The crowd kept getting reduced in numbers, with Steven right in the middle. After the filming stopped ("wrapped") he went back to the PA to thank him for “letting me be in the movie"; the PA realized what happened and had Rosenhaus sign a release form. He didn't get paid, but he was allowed to get some food at the “crafty” table and got to talk with Cheech Marin, one of the movies stars. (The film is free on YouTube. You can easily spot Steven about 20 minutes before the end in the crowd scene. Look for red hair and red beard!) But this still wasn't the start of anything.

In 2017 Blair Tindall, author of the book Mozart in the Jungle, posted on social media that the television show based on her book was looking for “guys with tuxedos” to play audience members at a gala concert of an orchestra. Having finished teaching for the semester as well as finishing composing JFK: A Profile for narrator and band or orchestra, Rosenhaus wanted something less intense to do and decided to try for it. He sent his particulars and a photo of him conducting to the casting company and got the job. Next he knew he was getting calls, texts, etc., to work on various productions.

Since then he has worked on many television shows, movies, commercials, and “internal” videos for businesses, as well as having speaking (or silent important) roles in independent and student films.