Keynote Speaker Bio

Stevie Walker-Webb is a Tony Award-nominated, Obie Award-winning director, playwright, and cultural worker who believes in the transformational power of art. He is the artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage and his work has been produced on and off-Broadway, including AIN’T NO MO’ (The Public Theatre/Broadway), ONE IN TWO (The New Group), BLACK ODYSSEY (Classic Stage), FAIRVIEW (Woolly Mammoth), and OUR TOWN (Baltimore Center Stage). Upcoming productions include GUN & POWDER (Paper Mill Playhouse). 
He is the founder of HUNDREDSofTHOUSANDS, an arts and advocacy organization that makes visual the suffering and inhumane treatment of incarcerated mentally ill people. He has received the Princess Grace Award for Theatre and the Lily Award from the Dramatists Guild of America, and is a 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop. He is a contributing writer for BET’s Emmy Nominated hit comedy THE MS. PAT SHOW, a visiting artist and lecturer at Harvard University, and is the founding artistic director of the Jubilee Theatre in Waco, Texas. Stevie has created art and theatre in Madagascar, South Africa, Mexico, and across America. steviewalkerwebb.com