Alan Stewart

Oakland, California

Dr. Alan Stewart (he/him) aside from being a veterinary internal medicine specialist is also an award winning playwright. He dedicated his first chapter to helping animals and preserving the human animal bond. Now he dedicates his playwriting to dramatizing important ethical questions and often uses animals to help with those questions. His play In Our Bones was a semifinalist in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Gary Marshall Competition and received a “rough read” from Playwrights Foundation; Of a Feather was the finalist at Madison New Works Laboratory. A short play, Final Fire was produced by UpMarket productions. His plays are often described as five plays in one because they are so dense. With his background as a doctor and decades of practice and having the privilege to witness amazing stories his brain overflows with theatrical ideas. Animals are excellent entrees to human tribulations because we express raw emotions with them. He loves challenging audiences with unresolvable dilemmas often involving ethics and science and yet leaving them with a heartwarming sensibility. Life is not simple. Animals make it better. For a veterinarian he immersed himself in a strong liberal arts education and has taken playwriting classes at the Dramatist Guild Institute, Berkeley Rep, ACT, Playwrights Foundation and HB Studios. He is a member of the Kennedy Center’s Playwriting Intensive. He is currently working on a TV pilot placing Grey’s Anatomy in a 24/7 Emergency Specialty Veterinary Hospital. A world he knows very well.