E.M. Lewis
Woodburn, OR
Award-winning playwright and librettist. Winner of the ATCA/Steinberg Award and the Primus Prize from the American Theater Critics Association.
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Plays

Magellanica
by EM Lewis

In 1985, eight scientists and engineers spend eight and a half months wintering over at the South Pole, where it appears that there is a hole in the sky.  A five part epic about science, mortality, humanity, and what it all means.  Here there be dragons...

 

Cast:
Captain Adam Burrell -- Male, American engineer, African American Freddie de la Rosa -- Male, "House Mouse," origin unknown Morgan Halsted -- Female, American climatologist Vadik Chapayev -- Male, Russian climatologist Todor Kozlik -- Male, Bulgarian cartographer William Huffington -- Male, British glaciologist Lars Brotten -- Male, Norwegian ornithologist May Zhou -- Female, Chinese American physicist
The Gun Show
by EM Lewis

"I'm here to tell a public story and a private story.  A story about guns in America, and a story about my own experiences with guns in America.  And when I say "my experiences," I mean hers."

A one-man show about guns and gun control.

 

 

Cast:
One male actor, to play The Playwright.

Successes

February 2015 - Playwright EM Lewis responds to plays at KCACTF Region 7 Festival in Ellensburg, WA and teaches a playwriting workshop entitled "Writing Your Own History."

February 2015 - Heads is produced at Theater for the New City in New York City.

January/February 2015 - The Gun Show is produced by Passage Theater in Trenton, NJ.