Stevie Walker-Webb

Broadway Director, Playwright, Activist

Stevie Walker-Webb is an Obie award-winning, and Broadway Director, Playwright, and Cultural Worker who believes in the transformational power of art. As a survivor of poverty and the associative violence that comes with growing up black and poor in America, he knows how liberating and necessary it is to create. He is a 2050 Fellow at the New York Theatre Workshop and recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Theatre. The Lily Award in honor of Lorraine Hansberry was awarded by the Dramatists Guild of America. He’s served as the Founding Artistic Director of the Jubilee Theatre and has created art and theatre in Madagascar, South Africa, Mexico, and across America. He’s worked as the Outreach Coordinator for Theatre of the Oppressed-NYC and holds an MFA from The New School and a B.S. in Sociology from the University of North Texas. His work has been produced by: The Public Theatre, American Civil Liberties Union, Cherry Lane, Zara Aina, La Mama, The New Group, and Wooly Mammoth, and Baltimore Center Stage.