N’yomi “Omi” Stewart (she/her) is a interdisciplinary artist and community organizer based in Brooklyn, NY.

N’yomi is the first black trans woman to graduate from the prestigious University of North Carolina School of the

Arts Acting program receiving a B.F.A. and has since has worked at the Public Theater (Off-Broadway: Richard

III, A Raisin in the Sun) and other notable theater companies such as The O’Neil, Manhattan Theatre Club, The

Roundabout, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, and The Old Globe.

Stamping herself in NYC as an artist on the rise, N’yomi has been an artist in residence with GALLIM (Moving

Artist Resident), New York Theater Workshop (Dartmouth & Adelphi), BTFA (Black Trans Femmes in the Arts),

and is now a 2024 recipient of the Toulmin Fund as a playwright co-commissioned by the The Geffen and

NYTW. Omi’s work is centered around her trans experience as it connects and relates to the world around her

through text, movement, and imagination.

Her recent project CATS: The Jellicle Ball was recently in performance at the Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC)

where she served as the Associate Director under Bill Rauch & Zhalion Levingston. Other directing credits

include the NYC workshop of American Eclipse written by Michel John LaChiusa.