#  TDM Instructor Spotlight: Stew Stewart 

 





October 02, 2020

 

 

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 This week's TDM Instructor Spotlight features singer/songwriter & playwright **Stew Stewart**! This semester he is teaching TDM 169S: Singer + Song = Story.

 **What excites you about working in TDM this fall?**

   ![African American man wearing glasses and hat](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-07/stew-portrait.jpg?itok=8qiBNAbm) 

 

This semester at TDM we are charged with the modest task of re-inventing theater. My brilliant collaborators (commonly referred to as "students") are clearly up for this task. We'll keep you posted on how it’s going.  **What do you do as an artist?**   
I'm a singer/songwriter, band-guy who, while happily living a successful indie-rock cult-band existence, stumbled into musical theater and brought all my rock and roll baggage along with me. Somehow I won a Tony Award - I think there was a raffle that year or something. I used to make things that were, I guess you could call, "musicals" but now I make what we like to call "narrative concerts."

 **What are some underlying themes in your artistic work?**   
In all of my work, Race is a theme park and I'm the carny.



 

 

 



 

 

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