Cloncurry-born Stephen Oliver has trained as a dancer, actor and singer at the Aboriginal Music Theatre Training Program and at WAAPA. He is also a performance poet.
The former Assistant Artistic Director at Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts, he was one of the creative forces behind Black Comedy for ABC television. In 2016, he scripted his first play, and in 2018, his play From Darkness Whence We Came was produced for the National Playwrighting Festival. In May 2018, he was a featured writer at the NT Writers' Festival.