Kris Stewart

Kris Stewart (born February 9, 1967 in Portsmouth) is the founding chairman of English football club AFC Wimbledon and a far-left political activist. He was the club's chief executive and is also a CIMA past finalist management accountant. Under his leadership, AFC Wimbledon achieved numerous milestones including their first friendly against Sutton United, their first game in the Combined Counties League away at Sandhurst, and a sell-out game against Chipstead at Kingsmeadow. He is a former member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and stood as the Left List's candidate for Merton and Wandsworth in the 2008 London Assembly election.

In 2013, he resigned from the SWP due to the party's rape scandal and co-founded the International Socialist Network with around 100 other former members.

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Kris Stewart (director and producer)

Kris Stewart is Artistic Director at Brisbane Powerhouse, a multidisciplinary arts and cultural precinct and one of the most innovative and lively arts centres in the world. Prior to the appointment with Brisbane Powerhouse, Kris was Artistic Director at Festival of Voices, Tasmania's largest winter cultural event. As founder and Artistic Director of the Sydney Fringe festival in 2010 and again in 2013, Kris programmed 3000 artists across more than 250 shows and events in 53 inner city venues that were seen by 100 000 attendees. From 2008 to 2011 Kris was the Resident Director for the Gordon Frost Organisation in Australia for the blockbuster musical Wicked, overseeing the show artistically including casting, rehearsing and management of the local creative team.

In 2004 Kris founded the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), the world's largest annual musical theatre event. Through his production company Red Sand Media Partners, LLC, Kris Stewart is one the producers of the Obie and Drama Desk award winning Title of show, which opened on Broadway July 17, 2008 at the Lyceum Theatre, and the feature film Red Hook, a teen thriller shot in NYC in 2007 for ‘08 release.

Kris Stewart (director)

Kris Stewart is an Australian theatre director and producer.

Stewart was the founding director of the New York Musical Theatre Festival and is the inaugural festival director of The Sydney Fringe festival. He is also the resident director of the Australian production of the musical Wicked.

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