Stew
Co-creator of TONY-winning
Passing Strange
Stew is the writer and co-composer of the 2008 Tony award-winning musical Passing Strange, which ran at Berkeley Rep, The Public Theater and The Belasco Theater. He is a two-time Obie winner and a four-time Tony nominee. Stew leads, along with his collaborator Heidi Rodewald, two critically acclaimed bands: The Negro Problem, and Stew. Additional works include Post Minstrel Syndrome, Joys and Concerns (TNP), Guest Host (S), The Naked Dutch Painter (S), Welcome Black (TNP), Something Deeper Than These Changes (S) and the cast album of Passing Strange, but he will ultimately be remembered for composing Gary Come Home for SpongeBob SquarePants.
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