As a Tony Award and two-time Obie Award winning playwright/performer, Stew is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and veteran of multiple dive-bar stages. Stew’s classes are hothouses of multi-disciplinary, self-challenging experimentation which encourage celebratory transformation via myth-making. His courses are equally informed by the spontaneous immediacy of rock-club survival tactics and the human grandeur of theater. As an instructor, Stew strives to demystify the creative process for students, while simultaneously inviting them to create myths out of their truths, so that those truths might go deeper and shine brighter.

WORKS

MAYBE THERE’S BLACK PEOPLE IN FORT GREENE: Written for Spike Lee’s TV show “She’s Gotta Have It.” 2019

A CLOWN WITH THE NUCLEAR CODE: Written for Spike Lee’s TV show “She’s Gotta Have It.” 2018

RESISTING MY RESISTANCE TO THE RESISTANCE: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2017

MOSQUITO NET (NYUAD Arts Center, Abu Dhabi 2016);

NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG: Commissioned by Harlem Stage. (performed worldwide) 2015 to present.

WAGNER, MAX!!! WAGNER!!!: Commissioned by & debuted at Kennedy Center, DC 2015

CHICAGO OMNIBUS commissioned by & debuted @ Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 2013

CALIFORNIA ANALOG: Commissioned by the University of California, Los Angeles, 2012

BROOKLYN OMNIBUS: Commissioned by & debuted at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2010

MAKING IT: commissioned by & debuted at St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn 2010

SPIKE LEE’S PASSING STRANGE (film) 2009

PASSING STRANGE: Tony for Best Book of a Musical. Broadway. 2008

PASSING STRANGE: Obie: Best New Theater Piece & Best Ensemble. Public Theater NYC 2007

PASSING STRANGE: World Premier. Berkeley Repertory. 2006

STEW & THE NEGRO PROBLEM have released 12 critically acclaimed albums between 1997 & the present.

Stew is the composer of “GARY COME HOME” of SPONGE-BOB SQUAREPANTS fame, which, honestly, is all anyone cares about anyway.