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Melanie Stewart creates darkly absurd movement-driven theatre focusing on the nuanced, weird, and vulnerable side of American culture. From 1984-2016 she was the Artistic Director of Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre producing over 50 original works of dance and movement driven theatre for the concert stage, in dance/film/video, and in education, both nationally and abroad. Presently she is the Artistic Producing Director of Blind Faith Theatre.  As a critically acclaimed director and choreographer, Stewart’s awards include numerous grants and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, Dance Advance/Pew Charitable Trusts, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the New Jersey Council on the Arts. She is also a Leigh Gerdine Distinguished Alumna Award winner from Webster University. Her recent productions include; MONSTER, a frankenstein play (2024), Just Like Hollywood (I See You Watching), (2023), Small Gifts (2020), In America, That is to Say No Where (2019), A Soldier’s Tale (2019), Interactive Wizard of Oz (2019), Credo in Us (2018) and, Interactive Alice in Wonderland (2018).