As a director, Kris' work has been seen widely in Australia and the US, for companies such as Opera Australia, the State Opera of South Australia, Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, The Broward Stage (Miami), International Management Group, Next Wave Festival, The Jacobsen Group, The Gateway Playhouse (New Jersey), The Production Company (Australia’s Encores Series), Playbox and Handspan Visual Theatre.

Largely focussing on new music theatre, Kris' work has been recognized with the $100,000 Jujamcyn Theaters Prize, the 2000 Sir Keith Murdoch Prize for Leadership and Innovation and a 2001 Churchill Fellowship, as well as Green Room Awards and Helpmann Awards and other prizes, including Best Production of 1996 for Skylight, and the SANTOS Emerging Director Prize (1996) and nominations for the Ockrent Fellowship (NYC) and the Young Australian of the Year. Kris is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theatre's Director's Lab and the Commercial Theater Institute (NYC), and completed his post-graduate study at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

 
 

 

"I am a musical director based in Australia ... and have worked with Kris Stewart on a number of productions. I find him one of the most exciting young talents in this country in the field of musical theater direction. I have worked with many different international directors (Hal Prince, Trevor Nunn, Susan Schulman, Baz Luhrmann) and find Kris Stewart's energy and artistic ability equal to any of them." - GUY NOBLE.

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