JANE ANN STEWART (production designer) reunites with filmmaker Alexander Payne after working on both Election and Citizen Ruth.

Stewart was born in Texas and raised in Connecticut and Europe. She graduated from UC Berkeley, where she majored in Art and commenced her career behind the camera as a scenic artist on Jaws and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. One of the original quartet of female set painters who gained entry into the motion picture industry in the 1970s, Stewart continued her career as art department assistant on Beetlejuice, The Lost Boys and The Accidental Tourist. Her first assignment as Production Designer was on Luca Bercovici's Rockula.

As Production Designer, Stewart worked on Allison Anders's Mi Vida Loca and Gas, Food, Lodging, as well as the films Candyman, The Maker, Inside Monkey Zetterland, Good Luck, The Invasion of Privacy and The Soul Opposite. In addition, she served as art director on Tim Burton's Ed Wood.

Stewart worked at Propaganda Films for two years, where she initially collaborated with director Payne