has camped in the Arctic in igloos while filming a traditional seal hunt with the Inuit people of Gjoa Haven for the History Channel (pictured).

Polar Cap Productions is thrilled to have such a talented and uniquely qualified location recordist for The Antarctica Classroom.

Stephen has recorded many unforgettable Canadian moments. He was with Marc Garneau when he was selected to join the historic Canadian Space Program and followed him for months while he trained at both Houston and Cape Canaveral and was there to film his launch into space.

Stephen recorded sound for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s 1988 election tour and campaign commercials. He has recorded Canadian pianist Anton Kuerti and his late wife Kristine Bogyo for the CBC show A Marriage in Music and worked on Ken Dryden’s quintessential Canadian series Home Game about the role of hockey in Canadian culture.

Stephen has worked on many ground breaking documentaries including Plague Monkeys (about the Ebola outbreak the US) and Threads of Hope (about Pinochet’s coup in Chile and the struggle of the families of the disappeared). He has also recorded hundreds of surgeries and medical documentaries for the U of T Instructional Medical Services.

Stephen’s work in audio recording has taken him around the globe. He has traveled to China with Peter Ustinov on his Unicef tour and was amongst the first westerners to visit restricted Tibetan areas of China. He has lived with and filmed the Wodaabe nomads of the sub Sahara in Niger for the award-winning Canadian documentary series Millennium.

Stephen worked on the PBS series Kratt’s Kreatures and traveled through Australia, the Caribbean, safaried in Kenya, Botswana and South Africa. He has hunted at night with lions on the Masai Mara, worked with elephants, giraffes, cheetahs, wombats, chimps and leopards. He spent six weeks working at the Duke University Primate Center filming ring-tail lemur behavior for the PBS show Zooboomafoo.

Through his work Stephen has flown in helicopters, Harvard trainers, gliders, Labradors, hang gliders, ultralites, and almost every small single engine aircraft imaginable. He has filmed on lobster boats, sloops, yawls, yachts and ships of all sizes. He has heli-skied in the Kootenays and in Portillo, Chile and sledded for many miles across the Arctic ice.

Stephen is also currently involved with the dramatic series Best Years and dramatic children’s programming, having worked on shows such as Radio Free Roscoe, Naturally Sadie, Life With Derek and OverRuled.