Trav S.D.
| Trav S. D. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Donald Travis Stewart November 8, 1965 |
| Occupation | Stage actor, director, journalist, author |
Donald Travis Stewart (aka Trav S.D.) (born 8 November 1965) is a leading figure in the New Vaudeville and Indie Theater movements, an author, journalist, playwright and stage performer.
Originally from Rhode Island, he started out as a stand-up comedian and studied at Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence before moving to New York City in 1988 to self-produce and perform in his own plays. In 1990 he worked as a personal and administrative assistant to the singer Tony Bennett. Following two years in the development office of the Big Apple Circus in 1995, he founded his company Mountebanks, a platform for producing original theatre pieces and vaudeville shows. He first began to attract notice in 1998 as one of a number of Lower East Side “performance comedians” colloquially known as Art Stars, working at alternative night clubs and theatres such as Surf Reality, Collective Unconscious, Todo Con Nada and The Present Company’s now defunct Theatorium. In 2001, he was featured in an Adam Gopnik article for The New Yorker about New Burlesque[2].
In 1999, he began publishing regular features and reviews in the Village Voice, Time Out New York, and American Theatre(where he was an Affiliated Writing Fellow in 2001, leading the magazine’s 9-11 coverage). In 2000, he became the first contributing reviewer, after editor Martin Denton, to nytheatre.com; where he also hosted dozens of podcasts (and two public access television specials), interviewing 250 indie theatre artists between 2006 and 2009. Since 2009, he has been a regular columnist and contributor to the Community Media family of papers, publishers of The Villager, Downtown Express, Chelsea Now and Gay City News. Artists he has interviewed have included: Amy Poehler, Penn & Teller, Margaret Cho, Jules Feiffer, Mink Stole, Bill Irwin, Harry Anderson, Jay Johnson, Rose Marie, Andy Borowitz, David Ives, Ralph Bronner (of Dr. Bronner’s soaps) Uncle Floyd Vivino, Loudon Wainwright III, Judith Malina, Penny Arcade and dozens of other unique American characters. He has also written for the New York Times, New York Sun, and Reason.
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