Stephen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 3, 1983. He is the third of three boys. He grew up in Grantsville, Utah and went to High school there. In High School he played football, played the trombone in the band and acted in the school musical when he was a senior. Stephen made his first movies when he was a sophomore, using his dad's old video camera and made stop motion movies with Lego figures, ever since then he's been hooked. He served an LDS mission to Minnesota/Wisconsin for two years after High School and since his return home in 2005 he has worked in the film industry in UT primarily on independent feature films.