Steve is an established author and playwright, with published work with Macmillan, Luath Press, Scratching Shed, Biteback, and Flametree, plus plays and comedy series broadcast by the BBC. His articles and contributions for magazines and periodicals cover a wide range of subjects, ranging from musical theatre and film, to satire and politics.

STEVE NALLON’S GHOST STORIES (2024) is a collection of ‘Twelve Spooky Tales of Supernatural Strangeness and Weirdly Wonderful Goings On’. The comedian and satirist Rory Bremner said of the tales, “One of our best impersonators has now found his voice as a writer – stories full of wit, character and intrigue, as entertaining as any of Steve’s characters,” and bestselling novelist Helen Lederer called ‘It’s What She Would Have Wanted’ "compelling and page turning – a delicious ghostly thrill of the witty and the twisty."

Tales in the collection include a plan to expose fraudulent clairvoyants that leads to unexpectedly grave consequences, a Gothic horror featuring the biblical Witch of Endor, a murder mystery set in an old manor house where a symposium on the Victorian ghost tale is taking place, a laugh-out-loud farce involving a frolicsome Hattie Jacques taking up ghostly residence in the downstairs toilet of two gay bears, plus Christmas angels, unaccountable shadows and a theatre ghost!

In 2022 Steve’s novel THE TIME THAT NEVER WAS, the first book in his young adult book series called THE SWIDGERS, was published by Luath Press, and the second in the series, THE TIME THEY SAVED TOMORROW, came out in 2024. Bestselling YA author Joseph Elliott described THE TIME THAT NEVER WAS as “A rambunctious riot of a book with a totally unpredictable plot – I never knew where I was going to be taken next!” A Love Books Tour of THE TIME THEY SAVED TOMORROW garnered much praise and numerous five star from readers and popular book bloggers.

DESTINATION TIME TRAVEL, an exploration of the story tropes of time travel tales written with British Film Institute archivist Dick Fiddy, was published in 2023. The book explores the writing craft of time travel stories, as well as the philosophy and science underpinning time travel tales. There’s a specific chapter on time machines, looking at the technology, science and design of some well known examples of temporal transport. There’s also a discussion of what you might call ‘time doorways’, such as portals, passageways, gateways and vortexes, that take time travellers to the past, future or alternate timeline universes, not forgetting the roles of dreams, foretellings and prophecies in time travel tales. There’s a chapter as well on the main players in a time tale, including time beings, time villains and time guardians, plus a section on various concepts and paradoxes around time travel, such as time loops and causal loops. DESTINATION TIME TRAVEL concludes with a look at the enduring popularity of the time tale and its continuing appeal.

As a playwright, Steve co-wrote with Mark Eden the full length drama PROPS, set at Shepperton Film Studios, which aired on Radio Four as part of a BBC Saturday Playhouse season. The play also went on to have a successful run on stage at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London. Collaborating with Turan Ali, Steve has written various satirical series for BBC Radio Four, notably THE NALLON TAPES and the political comedy THE GHOST OF NUMBER TEN. With the author Tom Holt, Steve co-wrote the spoof autobiography I, MARGARET, which was published by Macmillan, plus the radio comedy PRIZEGIVING, broadcast by the BBC. Steve has also written sketches for the TV series SPITTING IMAGE and comic monologues for the BBC television series such as NOW SOMETHING ELSE and THE RORY BREMNER SHOW.

Steve has penned three one-man theatre shows based on well known classic tales. STEVE NALLON’S CHRISTMAS CAROL, a contemporary retelling of the iconic Dickens’ story, was commissioned by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and NALLON’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, a re-imagining of Lewis Carroll surreal fantasy, won Best Comedy at the Buxton Fringe Festival and went on to have a successful run in Edinburgh. Steve’s comic take on Homer, THE BIG ODYSSEY, had a sell-out UK tour in places ranging from the Shetland Islands and Coleraine to Brighton, Bury St Edmunds and Alnwick.

In the 1980s, Steve wrote and performed in numerous Edinburgh Fringe shows, including TWO ENGLISHMEN AND A BROAD (with Jeremy Hardy and Kit Hollerbach) and MOUTHING OFF (with Harry Enfield, Bryan Elsley and Helen Lederer). In the 2000s, I’M NO ANGEL, Steve’s show featuring his creation ‘Lottie Wainwright (Deceased)’, enjoyed a successful run at the Jermyn Street Theatre and his comedy ‘ghost’ character went on to have her own ‘afterlife’ in variety shows at theatres and art centres around the country, including the Northcott in Exeter and the Komedia in Bath.

Steve has written extensively for the magazines SCRIPTWRITER and MUSICAL STAGES, producing numerous articles on screen writing and musical theatre history. He contributed the chapter on the Broadway musical style for THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC and has also written for THE NEW STATESMAN on film culture. Steve has been as a reviewer for NEW THEATRE QUARTERLY and a panel judge on the POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS in the ‘Satire and Humour’ category.

Steve is a much sought after speaker on the lecture circuit and in university colleges for his insightful and amusing talks. In 2023, he gave the keynote lecture TELLING THE TALES OF TIME at the British Film Institute times travel season DESTINATION TIME TRAVEL, and in 2015 Steve launched the conference ‘A Celebration of Political Satire’ at the University of Portsmouth with a talk on SPITTING IMAGE’s place in the the history of satire.