Bruce C. Steele

Bruce C. Steele is a journalist, critic, and author with a long career of profiling the famous and the unheralded, from the pastry chefs at the Biltmore Estate to the stars of Disney's "Mary Poppins Returns." A Pennsylvania native and University of Alabama graduate, he started his career as a reporter and editor at a daily newspaper in Alexandria, Louisiana, and most recently worked as the Planning Editor at the Asheville Citizen Times in Asheville, North Carolina. In between he was the executive editor (and one of the founding staff members) of Out magazine and editor in chief of The Advocate newsmagazine, where he reported and wrote the coming out interviews for many celebrities over the years. He also took time to get an MFA in film studies from Columbia University's School of the Arts. He has lived in New York City and Los Angeles, where his husband, Christopher Oakley, was an animator for the Walt Disney Co. Steele is now a North Carolina-based freelance writer and regular correspondent for Disney's twenty-three magazine and a contributor to the websites AshevilleMovies.com and AshevilleStages.com. Apart from the Disney cast members in his book "One Day at Disney," some of his favorite past interviews have been with Emma Watson, Sir Ian McKellen, Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, and crawfish farmers in southern Louisiana. He can be contacted via @bsteeleAVL on Twitter.