President of the award-winning media firm, Balcony Films, Stuart works as a producer, writer, director, and showrunner of documentaries, feature films, and television series. He teaches science, environment, and technology journalism at  USC. 

His work has been nominated for two Academy Awards for best feature documentary (Prisoner of Paradise and The Garden). Stuart has won multiple Emmy Awards and a Polk Award for excellence in journalism. 

Most recently, Stuart was co-executive producer of Meltdown, an Emmy-nominated four-part series for Netflix that investigates the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. He is also co-executive producer of the Emmy-winning Netflix music series, Remastered. 

Stuart has filmed around the globe. He was senior producer of the PBS news magazine South Africa Now. A career (and life) highlight for Stuart is producing the first exclusive interview with Nelson Mandela following his release from prison.   

Stuart’s work has a focus on the environment and climate change. He was a producer for the Showtime climate series Years of Living Dangerously, winner of an Emmy for best nonfiction series. He also wrote, produced, and directed Harmony, a primetime special for NBC. Called “breathtaking and beautifully filmed”  by the New York Times, Harmony focuses on sustainable solutions to global climate change. The film premiered at the Kennedy Center, where it was introduced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He was executive producer of The Garden, an Oscar-nominated documentary about the largest urban garden in America. 

Stuart’s work in dramatic films includes writing the story for The Vow, starring Channing Tatum & Rachel McAdams, and the environmental satire, Pictures at 11, about an eco-terrorist group that takes a Los Angeles television station hostage. He produces social media campaigns with performers like Julia Louis Dreyfus, Will Farrell, Fergie, and Stevie Wonder which have reached hundreds of millions of viewers and helped register millions of new voters. 

Stuart has a bachelor’s in politics from UC Santa Cruz and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.