Stewart St. John

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Stewart St. John is an American filmmaker, writer, composer, director, producer of television, feature, online and mobile entertainment.

St. John began his professional career under contract at Hanna-Barbera, working with founder Joseph Barbera on writing episodes of Tom & Jerry Kids, Droopy and Dripple, and Spyke & Tyke. He served as story editor/writer on over forty episodes of the smash Fox Kids series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers where he injected his signature soap-style arcs to some of the series most well-known episodes, including the famous Green Ranger mini-series. He also penned episodes of other children's shows, including Sabrina, the Animated Series, The Incredible Hulk, Heavy Gear, and VR Troopers.

St. John wrote and produced the award-winning Showtime Original Family Feature Seventeen Again (currently airing on Disney Channel), starring Tia and Tamara Mowry, stars of the hit WB series, Sister, Sister. The movie was later nominated for a Young Artist's Award. He has written pilots for Disney Channel, Fox and ABC, as well as original features for many of the major studios.

In the mid 90s, St. John was the story editor and executive producer of the critically acclaimed web site, The Spot, which he revived in 2004 with an all-new cast for the web, and created a cell phone component comprised of over 1500 mobisodes that aired on Sprint PCS Vision enabled phones, essentially becoming the first American cell phone soap.

St. John and producing partner Todd James Fisher launched StewdioMedia Entertainment -- [1] -- dedicated to creating entertainment programming across all media platforms.

A huge believer in online entertainment and the community it reaches, St. John created California Heaven -- [2] as the first scripted TV series produced exclusively for broadband. It launched in August 2005 and is currently viewed in over 21 countries. Its first season was recently licensed to Japan.

In 2008, St. John completed post production on his feature film directorial debut The Chronicles of Hollow Earth: The Next Race, an independent sci fi drama that is the prequel to his trilogy story known as The Creation Wars saga. To visit the site and see the trailer:[ http://www.thenextrace.com]

St. John, who previously won a philharmonic award at the age of 15, returned to composing music in 2007. He was contacted by Jerry and Esther Hicks, the New York Times best-selling authors of Law of Attraction and Ask And It Is Given, about bringing their children's book series to the big screen as a movie musical. St. John collaborated with Esther Hicks on the project and composed 15 original songs while Esther wrote the lyrics. Esther and Jerry asked to play two small roles in the film. St. John, who combined Sara Book 1 and Sara Book 2 into a final screenplay, will direct the film while his production company produces. It is to be shot on location in Austin, San Antonio and Bourne, Texas.

Esther Hicks, a well known American channeler who corresponds with a group of evolved spiritual beings known as Abraham, said Stewart was channeling Abraham through music. The Hicks asked St. John to score their channeled Sara audio books on which the movie was based. Released through inspirational self-help publishers Hay House, "The Sara Series" exemplifies the Teachings of Abraham, the foundation of the Abraham-Hicks Law of Attraction work.

Narrated by Jerry Hicks, the three audio books include: Sara Book 1, Sara Learns The Secret About The Law of Attraction, Sara Book 2: Solomon's Fine Featherless Friends, and Sara Book 3: A Talking Owl Is Worth A Thousand Words. The Hicks licensed St. John's original scores and released the audio books through Hay House in 2008.

Stewart composed his first solo album of inspirational music in the spring of 2008. Called Cloudwalking: Music To Inspire And Align Your Soul, the album is available through his web site at www.stewartstjohn.com [3]