Steven recently directed Jodie Whittaker’s Big Finish debut as the 13th Doctor, a landmark release in the Doctor Who audio series. 

Steven has just completed directing Big Finish’s latest Doctor Who adventure featuring Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor. 

From the world of Doctor Who, Steven directs the acclaimed Dark Gallifrey: Master! trilogy, written by Lizzie Hopley and starring Paul McGann, Eric Roberts, Francesca Gilbert, Nathan Griffiths, Millie Hikasa, Lizzie Hopley, Claire Huckle, Nadia Violet Johnson, and Chris Odulele. The trilogy has been warmly received by fans, earning praise for its storytelling and performances.

Steven Kavuma and Mared Llywelyn’s Dal Gafael / Hold On is a gripping bilingual production that bears witness to a young person’s cry for a better future, destined to be shaped by the ancestry of their past. The production premiered at The Sherman Theatre.​

Brought to life by Steven, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ electrifying play An Octoroon—winner of the Obie Award and twice runner-up finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama—was staged at UAL Wimbledon, where he directed final-year actors in a bold, intense production that left a powerful and lasting impression on audiences.

The story follows Shaun and Sammy, a couple grappling with the strain on their relationship amid a world in upheaval. Shaun and Sammy are forced to confront not only the fractures within their own relationship but also the weight of the larger societal moment pressing down on them. The show premiered to a sold-out run at the Park Theatre and received rave reviews from audiences. 

Steven and dramaturg Zoë Svendsen reimagined Richard Brome’s satirical comedy The English Moor for a new audience.​ 

Presented as part of Shakespeare’s Globe’s 2024 season, The English Moor was performed script-in-hand in the intimate, candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. This production also marked the revival of the Globe’s Read Not Dead series. 

Steven was one of the writers on Sky Arts’ groundbreaking television premiere GALWAD—a bold, multilingual, multiplatform story imagining a possible future in the year 2052. His contribution to the project featured actor Kel Matsena and formed part of an ambitious narrative experiment that blended live performance, TV drama, digital storytelling, and real-time events.

Rafaella Marcus’ The Last Love Song of Suzie Costello—directed by Steven Kavuma—stars Olivier Award-winning actor Indira Varma, alongside Danielle Kassaraté and James Backway, in an emotionally charged Torchwood audio drama. The production received rave reviews from fans. 

Steven wrote Everything We Needed to Say, a compelling play that explores four intimate conversations where characters reveal their deepest thoughts and emotions at pivotal moments in their lives. The play premiered at ArtsEd and was later performed by final-year actors at UAL Wimbledon. 

James interviews to be the Artistic Director of a theatre but when he doesn’t get the job he is driven by an inexplicable rage, believing that the person he was up against was selected because she is a Black woman, rather than for her ability. Directed by award-winning director Denzel Westley-Sanderson and dramaturged by Izzy Rabey

Steven led the National Youth Theatre’s part-time intake course for 18+, directing a vibrant final showcase performed in the Music Hall.

As part of Shakespeare’s Globe partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Steven served as Course Director for their intensive four-week MA/MFA Classical and Contemporary Text course, culminating in his direction of Romeo and Juliet performed in the iconic Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

Written by Lucy Owen and Georgie Wallace, with additional material developed by the company, the play is a darkly funny, satirical take on how intersecting identities collide in a broken world. Tackling themes of class, race, and women’s safety, the show premiered at Seven Dials Playhouse and received ★★★★ from Everything Theatre.

Created in response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020, and the subsequent global resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the play is a visceral exploration of systemic racism in society, white privilege, and how both affect a group of young people searching for difficult answers to complicated questions.

Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo’s Teleportation—starring Antonia Layiwola and Lee Ravitz—marked Steven’s directorial debut. The production sold out its run and earned acclaimed reviews from The Stage and Afridiziak, along with ★★★★ from The Upcoming and A Younger Theatre.

Steven was Head of Programming for the West End-based venue, curating its 2023 season which featured Post Traumatic Slay Disorder by Lois-Amber Toole, Sankofa by Nicole Acquah, and PlayFight by Christina Alagaratnam. The season received strong press and Offie nominations, with Steven’s tenure marking a period of artistic renewal and leading on a new artistic policy for the organisation.

Frustrated by the lack of diversity at the Edinburgh Fringe and in fringe theatre, Steven created and curated This Is Black, a bold festival at the Bunker Theatre celebrating urgent new writing from Black artists.​ The festival received Offie nominations, was named in Time Out’s “Must-See” list, and earned critical acclaim—The Stage praised it as “full of raw talent,” The Upcoming gave it ★★★★, and A Younger Theatre described it as  politically powerful.

Steven was one of the writers for Tottenham Symphony at the Royal Court Theatre, a live performance exploring the degrees of separation within the Tottenham community.