H. J. Steward |
H. J. Steward is an actor, director, playwright, designer and instructor with over twelve years of theater experience. Mr. Steward studied communication at Newman University in Wichita, KS and playwrighting at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. Mr. Steward most recently directed Freckle in My Eye by Ashley Wilkerson and The highly acclaimed production of Langston Hughes', Black Nativity, for TeCo Theatrical Productions. He has also directed, Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf as a part of Open Stage of Harrisburg's 7th Annual WomenSpeak Festival. He has portrayed Tom Robinson in Open Stage's production of To Kill a Mockingbird. Other selected credits are Creon in Antigone at Newman University in Wichita, KS and Oberon in A Mid-Summer's Night Dream. While in Harrisburg, Mr. Steward was a visiting artist and guest lecturer at Pennsylvania State University's Harrisburg campus, Central Pennsylvania College and Harrisburg Area Community College. Mr. Steward has also worked as a Theater and Outreach Specialist for Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg. As an educator, Mr. Steward has spent that last nine years teaching creative dramatics for various organization including Big Thought, Soul Rep, Open Stage of Harrisburg, Harrisburg Independent School District, and agencies in both The North Texas and Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church. H. J. Steward is honored to serve as the Cultural Programs/Technical Coordinator for the South Dallas Cultural Center.