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Melanie Stewart creates darkly absurd movement-driven theatre focusing on the nuanced, weird, and vulnerable side of American culture.  She was the artistic director of Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre from 1984 to 2014, producing over 50 original works of dance and movement-driven theater for the concert stage, in film/video, and education, nationally and abroad. Presently, she is the Artistic Producing Director of Blind Faith Productions.  The company’s first original production, Just Like Hollywood (I See You Watching) was first presented at the 2022 Cannonball Festival a hub of the Philadelphia Live Arts/Fringe.   In 2024 she co-produced the show with Central Standard Theatre at the Bedford and Camden Fringe Festivals in the UK, described as “hard hitting, uncompromising drama” by London Pub Theatres.com. Other recent productions include MONSTER, a frankenstein tale, by  John Clancy, which premiered at Rowan University in the  2024 main stage season and was presented at the Festival of Monsters at the University of California, Santa Cruz in October.  Stewart is a professor of theatre and dance at Rowan University, specializing in physical theatre and medical improvisation.