Tiffany Rachelle Stewart
Assistant Arts Professor
Tiffany Rachelle Stewart is a long-time professor of innovative movement techniques for actors and serves as the Interim Head of Physical Acting for The New Studio on Broadway. Her physical acting pedagogy centers around the mind-body connection, ensuring that actors are not simply skilled in the tools of their craft, but fearless enough to be able to use those tools with courage and audacity.
Tiffany is a nationally recognized actress and an experienced director and choreographer. Since receiving a terminal degree in Acting from The Yale School of Drama, Tiffany has gone on to perform in television & film, in many of the nation’s leading regional theaters, off-Broadway and on Broadway. Her acting credits include—Broadway: The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time. Off-Broadway: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (The Signature Theatre & American Repertory Theatre), Sugar In Our Wounds (Manhattan Theatre Club), Pericles (Public Theater), Julius Caesar (TFANA), Vagina Monologues (Cherry Lane). Regional: The House That Will Not Stand (Berkeley Repertory/Yale Repertory), The Winter’s Tale (The Alley Theater), Animal Farm (Baltimore Center Stage/Milwaukee Repertory), Vera Stark (The Alliance), Love’s Labour’s Lost & The African Company Presents Richard III (Oregon Shakespeare), World Premier of Mud Row by Dominique Morisseau (People’s Light). TV: “Blacklist,” “Law & Order SVU,” “Black Rose,” “All My Children,” “Royal Pains,”. Film: Hotel Pennsylvania. Tiffany received the award of Best Actress in a Drama at the New York Television Festival (“Black Rose”), a Lucille Lortel for Best Revival (Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992), and an AUDELCO for Outstanding Ensemble (Sugar In Our Wounds).
Tiffany believes strongly that there's a reason we don't remember the bankers and socialites from centuries past-- We remember the artists. Every culture on the planet holds the legacy of its artists close. This is because artists are the ones who tell each generation how to navigate this impossible task of being human. For this reason Tiffany considers every artist she works with an invaluable contributor to mankind, and takes not one lesson with her students for granted.
"Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about." -Rumi