Steven Schub

Steven Schub was born in Brooklyn, New York, but was raised primarily in Berkeley and Piedmont, California. At age 16, he attended the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, studying under Annette Bening. After high school, he spent the summer as a volunteer with the Israeli army before entering New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. At NYU, he studied at both the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and the Stella Adler Conservatory, and formed a notoriously short-lived theater company, "The Bullstoi Ensemble" with roommate Philip Seymour Hoffman and director Bennett Miller. In Schub's junior year, he went back to Israel to study Religion and Philosophy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It was there that he founded the punk band "Jew2" and met Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle at a "Battle of the Bands" Mr. Pyle was judging. After returning to the US and graduating from NYU, Schub met Pyle again while employed as a bellhop at "The Park Central Hotel" in New York City.