Biography
Neil Patrick Stewart is a proud member of the acting faculty at Texas State, as well as an actor, writer, and decorated director. He holds an M.F.A. in acting from the world-renowned American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, and a B.A. in theater from Wesleyan University. Recent directing credits include: Volleygirls: the Musical in New York City, and Gainesville, FL, the world-premieres of Shiner in both Los Angeles and NYC, and The Elephant Man in LA (nominated for four Ovation Awards, including best production and best direction). Neil was a founder and creative director of Back House Productions in NYC, which helped push over 40 projects from page to stage, including Broadway’s smash hit In the Heights (for two years of its workshop development process, Neil was co-director of the musical). Recent acting credits include four separate tours/ engagements of Julius Caesar in Cambridge, MA, and multiple cities in France, and four separate tours/ engagements of Jean Genet’s Splendid’s, in NYC, Bogota, Colombia, Seoul, South Korea, and multiple cities in France. Neil is the associate artistic director (as well as a founder and member of the acting faculty) of The Performing Arts Project, a cutting-edge national musical theatre training intensive for outstanding high-school and college-aged students, which takes place every summer, and he was a member of the acting faculty of the Broadway Theatre Project for over a decade. At Texas State, his directing credits include Amber Jar Chrysanthemum, Tales of the Lost Formicans, the 2014, 2015, and 2016 BFA Acting Showcases, the Playwrights’ Lab productions of both From A to Double-D and Flood, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on the Patti Strickel Harrison mainstage, and he appeared in the new play Imagine That on the PSH Foundation Studio stage, and as Oberon in the Texas State production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, presented on the Harrison mainstage and directed by Dr. Chuck Ney. Neil is an author and a former professional writer, with two books on the shelves of major bookstores: Fact. Fact. Bullsh*t! and Headlines! Headlines! Headlines?, and hundreds of articles published in magazines.