Mignon McPherson Stewart
aka Mignon McPherson Nance
Regional Theater Productions
Director, Breath, Boom (Kia Corthron), Eclipse Theatre Co.
Director, Dandelions (Marsha Estelle), Collaboraction – Peacebook Festival
Director, The Crooner (Marsha Estelle), Chicago Dramatists – Saturday Series
Director and Co-Creator, Opening Performance – The Bang Bang Project, Zhou B Arts
Director, The Crooner (Marsha Estelle), Black Words Black Lives
Director, Night Vision (Dominique Morisseau) & Dressing (Mona Mansur and Tala Manassah), Goodman Theatre – Facing Our Truth
Director, Everything is Permitted (Chelsea Marcantel-Polaski), Collaboraction
Director, Wine in the Wilderness / Florence (Alice Childress), eta Creative Arts Foundation
Director, The Trip (Crystal Rhodes), eta Creative Arts Foundation
Director, Ten Square (Shepsu Aakhu), MPAACT
Director, Stage Black (Lydia Diamond), MPAACT
Director, Trouble the Water (Shepsu Aakhu), MPAACT
Director, Softly Blue (Shepsu Aakhu), MPAACT
Director & Co-Adapter, Relevant Hearsay: Stories from 57 (Shirley Carney), MPAACT & Theatre on the Lake
Assistant Director, Electricidad (Luis Alfaro), Goodman Theatre, Director: Henry Godinez
Director, Sisters from Belzoni (Creola Thomas), eta Creative Arts Foundation
Director, Sost (Shepsu Aakhu), MPAACT
Director, Kiwi Black (Shepsu Aakhu), MPAACT
Director, Kosi Dasa (Shepsu Aakhu), MPAACT
Director, Fascia (Shepsu Aakhu), MPAACT
Director, Passages of Martin Luther King Jr. (Ifa Bayeza), Chernin Ctr for the Arts
Guest Director, Break it Down, Healthworks Theatre
Director, Glow of Reflected Light (Shepsu Aakhu), MPAACT
Director and Co-Adapter, Journal of Ordinary Thought, Chicago Theatre Company and Theatre on the Lake
Director, MiLK (Nambi E. Kelley), MPAACT
University Productions
Director, Sweet Water Taste, (Gloria Bond Clunie) Columbia College Theodore Ward Winner
Director, Crumbs From the Table of Joy (Lynn Nottage), Loyola University
Readings and Festivals
Director, The Last Cadillac (Reginald Edmund), Chicago Dramatists Saturday Series
Director, Jackson (Shawn Price), Chicago Dramatists 10 Minute Play Festival
Director, Iowa Akhbar (Aaron Carter), Chicago Dramatists Saturday Series
Director, Sweet Water Taste (Gloria Bond Clunie), Goodman Theatre New Stages Series
Director, Softly Blue, (Shepsu Aakhu) Goodman Theatre New Stages Series
Director, Shaved Fish, Young Playwrights Festival, Pegasus Players
Director, Here I Am…See Can You Handle It, (Lydia Diamond (Gartin) Bailiwick Director’s Festival
Dramaturgy
Field of Souls – Darlette McAlpin – Playwright, Runako Jahi – Director, eta Creative Arts Foundation
Fathers and Sons, Michael Bradford – Playwright, Kemati Porter- Director, eta Creative Arts Foundation
The Man Who Saved New Orleans Director Artisia Green-Dallas, Playwright Thomas Meloncon
Nanay Isog and her Children (adaptation of Mother Courage and her Children), Alan Sargan-Director, Pintig Cultural Group
Missing Peace by Edwidge Danticat, Mignon Stewart-Adaptation, MPAACT
Honors and Awards
Goodman Theatre Michael Maggio Directing Fellowship, 2003
The Trip; BTAA Nomination, Best Director, 2011
Stage Black; BTAA Nomination, Best Director, 2009
Trouble the Water; Jeff Recommended, Best Production Winner, BTAA, 2007
Sost; BTAA Best Production, 2004
Relevant Hearsay; 8 BTAA Nominations inc. Best Director, Production & Original Play, 2004
Kiwi Black; Jeff Recommended, 2003
Kosi Dasa; Jeff Recommended, 2002
MiLK; BTAA Nomination, Best Director, 1995
Journal of Ordinary Thought ; Jeff Recommended, Best Plays of 1999 by Hedy Weiss (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES) & Chris Jones (CHICAGO TRIBUNE); F.E.A.T. Award; Phoenix Theatre, Indianapolis
Education & Training
M.F.A. Roosevelt University; Director/Dramaturgy College of Performing Arts. Thesis Production: Marisol by José Rivera
B.A. Loyola University. Theatre. Magna Cum Laude.
