Stew (Mark Stewart, born 1961) is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter from
Los Angeles. In the early 1990s he formed a band called The Negro Problem and later went on to release albums under his own name. His 2000 release Guest Host was named Album of the Year by
Entertainment Weekly and his 2002 album The Naked Dutch Painter and Other Songs repeated that feat. He toured in support of
Arthur Lee in 2002 and in 2003 he was invited to take part in the
Lincoln Center's American Songbook series of concerts. Since 2004 he and his partner Heidi Rodewald have been producing a musical entitled Passing Strange with the support of the
Sundance Institute and
The Public Theater. In 2005 he reached possibly his largest audience ever when he wrote and performed "
Gary's Song" for the
SpongeBob SquarePants episode "
Have You Seen This Snail? (Where's Gary?)". In 2006 he and Rodewald continued to produce Passing Strange as well as working on a film project with The Sundance Institute. Passing Strange came to the New York theatre scene in 2007 during a short run at The Public Theater and received critical praise from both the
New York Times and
Variety.
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