Brian Stewart(IX)

Brian Stewart grew up in Bay Village, Ohio and got his first experience as an actor in the musical "this land is your land." a local North Olmsted High School production. During High School he studied rock keyboard playing at the Music Grotto across from Cleveland State University where Jim Fox of the James Gang taught and Billy Bass of WMMS was the manager. At the University of Arizona his Alma Mater he studied screenplay writing and completed his version of Tin Drum by Guntner Grass. He was active as a photographer and keyboard player in several local bands one of which opened up for Jefferson Airplane violinists Papa John Creach. He moved to Los Angeles and continued to work in the music field studied at the legendary Dick Grove Jazz school where he became proficients at sight reading music charts and joined a well known music act with whom he played at Disneyland, Oral Roberts University and Creation festival in Pennsylvania. He continued writing scripts and shopped them around. He successfully optioned a script to John Heyman "Passage to India" called "Sugar Baby" which was later produced as an Independent Film garnering several award including a Platinum Award at the Houston film festival. He wrote several musical stage productions "Light in the darkness" "Hunchback of Notre Dame" "Gates of Hell" which met with modest success in Phoenix, Arizona. His group "Orphans in the City" opened up for Phillip Bailey during his Easy Lover tour and did a limited US tour through the southern states and Florida. He opened a piano tuning and sales business which also specialized in providing film props to many well known set designers and contributed heavily to both "Tombstone" and "Quick and the Dead." both providing props, furniture and manufacturing items used in the productions. He created the children's puppet show "Donkey Ollie" and held several free productions for children in Tempe Arizona. He produces both animated and live action films which have won many film festival awards.