Biography

Stewart is a Co-Executive Producer, Line Producer, and Production Executive with extensive experience with most major studio, network, cable, and streaming television companies including Netflix, Sony Pictures Television, Warner Brothers, Amazon, HBO, Weinstein Productions, NBC, and CBS. He has worked on 33 television series, 27 pilots (20 ordered to series), and dozens of features films and television movies. He was recently Director, Original Series Production, for Netflix and prior to that assignment was Co-Executive Producer for the premiere season of Better Call Saul. He won 2 Emmys as Line Producer for Breaking Bad, the most critically acclaimed series in the history of television. He also received two Directors Guild Awards, two Producers Guild Awards, a Golden Globe, and two Peabody Awards for this series. He was the only person, cast or crew, who was on set for every day of the production of Breaking Bad. In addition to his regular production positions, his work as a production consultant includes scheduling and/or budgeting over 160 pilots and television series for streaming, cable, and broadcast companies for projects throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe. In 2015, he was the first television line producer to be the subject of "An Evening With..." hosted by Senator Christopher Dodd at the MPAA in Washington, DC. Stewart has lectured at the Directors Guild, the Producers Guild, Chapman University, USC's Peter Stark Program, UCLA, the University of Maryland, Leeds College (England), the University of Stuttgart and Merz Akademie (Germany) about set operations, scheduling, budgeting, and the development of "auteur" television. Stewart received his BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and his MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business. He is a graduate of the DGA/Producers Training Program.
- IMDb mini biography by: Stewart A. Lyons