Emmy-winner and New York Times best-selling novelist Sean Stewart co-created the Alternate Reality Game (ARG) genre, winning a Peabody Award as the lead writer on the field-defining project The Beast for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, as well as Halo 2’s I Love Bees and Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero.

He won a Primetime Emmy for Online Programming for the transmedia television series Dirty Work, and continued to develop interactive television concepts as Creative Director for Xbox Entertainment Studios, before moving on to XR start-up Magic Leap.

Stewart’s twelve novels include two New York Times Notable Book awards and the World Fantasy Award-winner, Galveston. His novels and new media career converged with the international best-selling Cathy’s Book transmedia novels, now published in more than twenty countries around the world.

In 2020 he worked with Australia's National Institute for Dramatic Art to write and direct Roundabout, an interactive play live-streamed on Twitch.