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At the age of eight Stewart started dancing.

At the age of eleven he won a scholarship to the British Ballet Organisation in London.

At the age of fifteen he damaged his knees, was on a walking stick for a year and was told never to dance again.

Never being one to give up, at the age of seventeen Stewart danced professionally for the Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Vienna Festival Ballet.

This was a short lived career as once again the knees collapsed.

Also at the age of seventeen, he was offered a teaching scholarship but refused it saying "If I can't do it myself how could I possibly demonstrate to a class the correct way to do it with frustrating myself."
This not being enough for Stewart he decided that, as he was told never to dance EVER again he would instead try Kung-Fu (after all that's not physical is it?) and trained for some years to obtain quite a proficiency. But alas and alack, whilst training to teach the past came flooding back and the Doctor shook his head once again.

Whilst dancing Stewart was always interested in the performance aspect which naturally led him towards acting.

While completing a B.A (Hons) in Theatre Studies and Philosophy, Stewart met David Beecroft, Justin Sage-Passant and Baz Barrett… Screwed and Clued Theatre Co. was formed.

Stewart has been involved in all but one of Screwed and Clued's shows as a co -writer/devisor/director and performer. Including Shooting up Shakespeare, Trench, Grimm Tales, Fitch and Cabbage, EN-GER-LAND and more recently Pinocchio.

Stewart met Natalie at the 2003 Ottawa Fringe. Touring with Pinocchio in 2004, a marriage proposal and many hours of immigration paperwork later… thoughts of Enigma Productions started to form.

He is 28 years old and five foot three.


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