STEW - Off-Broadway Creative Team
Production Staff
Zora Howard
Playwright
Avi Amon
Sound Designer
AVI AMON is a Turkish-American composer, sound artist, and educator. Theater work includes music, songs, & sound design for projects with: Arena Stage, Ars Nova, Edinburgh Fringe, The Kennedy Center, Lookingglass, New York Theater Workshop, The Old Globe, PAC NYC, Page73, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Signature Theater, The Public, Target Margin, and Waterwell. Avi’s film scores have been featured at Cannes, Disney, DOCNYC, HBO, Hulu, Slamdance, SWSX, Tribeca Film Festival, The Venice Biennale, and more. Recent: DANGER & OPPORTUNITY (2025 Drama Desk Award); EMPTY RIDE (The Old Globe); THE FOLLOWING EVENING with 600 Highwaymen (PAC NYC); and two musicals: THE LESSON ... read more
Stacey Derosier
Lighting Designer
Rico Frederick
Graphic Designer
Dominique Fawn Hill
Costume Designer
Nikiya Mathis
Hair & Wig Design
Nikiya Mathis is an actress and Hair/wig designer. She is the recipient of the 2024 Special Tony Award for her recent work on Jaja's African Hair Braiding, the first Wig designer to ever receive a special Tony award for a specific work. And one of two wig designers to ever recieve the highest honor in theater. She has received 2 Henry Hewes Design Awards, a Drama Desk Award, the Kathleen Perkins Behind the Curtain Award from Black Women on Broadway, and is one of only 2 African American wig designers to win Obie Awards.
Nikiya is also a ... read more
Lawrence Moten
Set Designer
Caitlin Murphy
Props Designer
Colette Robert
Director
Awards and Nominations
2021 The Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zora Howard was nominated but did not win.
2020 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Wig and Hair Design: Nikiya Mathis was nominated but did not win.
2020 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Performance Award : Portia was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Production of a Play: Stew was nominated but did not win.