Stephen Riordan directs ‘Venus in Fur’ at The Studio@620

Stephen Riordan directs ‘Venus in Fur’ at The Studio@620

This week delivers the debut of St. Petersburg’s latest theater company, Dead Canary, whose artistic director and co-founder has been a familiar name and face on the local stage scene for years. He’s Stephen Riordan, and he’s directing the company’s first show, David Ives’ sexy, scintillating and sometimes scary Venus in Fur, opening Thursday at Dead Canary’s home base, The Studio @620. First, that name. Riordan says he and his partners wanted s…