Steven is known to the public as the voice behind "Al E. Gator" and the master manipulator of "Rocket the Roller Skater" marionette. Steven founded The Puppet Company, which has performed for major corporations, parties, schools museums and libraries. Steven has worked on numerous commercials and films, and has developed educational programs utilizing puppets. Additionally, he composes the music for all of The Puppet Company's original works. These include: Franklin the Wizard, Harmony Castle, Dragon Soup, Attention: Earthlings, Lost & Found, Surprise Party and Rocket & Friends. He has served on the Board of Directors of UNIMA-USA, the international organization of puppeteers, is a past President of The Puppetry Guild of Greater New York, and is the founding Editor of the Guild's acclaimed newsletter, PuppetMaster.

In 1996 Steven co-produced a TV pilot for a children's television program called The Al E. Gator Show, in conjunction with NYU's Tisch Center and then student and Puppet Company intern, Eric Jacobsen. The show won first prize in the NYU student film festival. The talented intern Jacobsen has gone on to be a standout for the Muppets and operates and is the voice of Miss Piggy.

Steven also participated as puppet builder and puppeteer in the 1998-99 Tisch production of Music Time Cafe, involving physically challenged children as stars in a musical show. Steven has worked as a puppeteer on the video production Davy Jones' Locker featuring Bil Baird's Marionettes, the movie American Astronaut, and more recently TV Funhouse for Comedy Central, The Book of Pooh, and Bear in the Big Blue House.