<![CDATA[Mike Lew - Playwright - News]]>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:22:35 -0400Weebly<![CDATA[Guggenheim Fellowship!]]>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:48:29 GMThttps://www.mikelew.com/news/guggenheim-fellowshippinch me.
www.gf.org/announcement-2021/
]]><![CDATA[Audio Style!]]>Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:04:07 GMThttps://www.mikelew.com/news/audio-styleHi there, Huntington did a podcast version of Tiger Style! with BGH and it's available here.

And we're now nominated for a Drama League Award for Best Audio Theater Production.
]]><![CDATA[Some Updates]]>Fri, 23 Aug 2019 22:33:36 GMThttps://www.mikelew.com/news/some-updatesOK some updates!

Bhangin' It won the Richard Rodgers Award.

Teenage Dick is going to Donmar Warehouse in London, Dec 6 - Feb 1 2020 and to Wooly Mammoth in DC June 2020.

Tiger Style! was at Olney in Maryland and everyone seemed like they had a good time!

Teenage Dick, Tiger Style!, and microcrisis are all now available from Dramatists Play Service.
]]><![CDATA[Teenage Dick in Theatre Forum Magazine]]>Sun, 03 Feb 2019 02:06:46 GMThttps://www.mikelew.com/news/teenage-dick-in-theatre-forum-magazine
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Academics and monologue-seekers, Teenage Dick will soon be available from Dramatists Play Service but the full text is now published in Theatre Forum - the last-ever print edition, grab it now!
]]><![CDATA[TD, BI]]>Tue, 29 Jan 2019 17:37:29 GMThttps://www.mikelew.com/news/td-biTeenage Dick is now playing at Artists Rep in Portland thru Feb 3.
Next up cooking up a workshop of Bhangin' It in NYC...
]]><![CDATA[The Colonialism Project]]>Thu, 06 Sep 2018 17:26:51 GMThttps://www.mikelew.com/news/the-colonialism-projectRSVPs now open for a reading of "The Colonialism Project" - a trilogy of plays by me n Rehana, commissioned by LJP and opening the season at the Lark. Sep 24-25. See ya there.
https://www.larktheatre.org/whats-happening/events/colonialism-project/]]><![CDATA[La Jolla Playhouse Residency, New Dramatists]]>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 00:25:12 GMThttps://www.mikelew.com/news/la-jolla-playhouse-residency-new-dramatistsThis summer we're workshopping "Bhangin' It" and our commissioned trilogy with La Jolla Playhouse. September 17 is the New Playwrights Welcome at New Dramatists where I'll begin my seven-year residency.]]><![CDATA[Spring Updates: New Dramatists, La Jolla Playhouse, "Bhangin' It" and "Teenage Dick"]]>Sun, 20 May 2018 00:54:12 GMThttps://www.mikelew.com/news/spring-updates-new-dramatists-la-jolla-playhouse-bhangin-it-and-teenage-dickSome spring updates!

Rehearsals continue for Teenage Dick, produced by Ma-Yi at the Public. If you're in NYC check it out June 12-July 15. Tix here:
https://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/1516/Teenage-Dick/?SiteTheme=JoesPub

Coming up in June I've also received a Project Springboard dance workshop of our musical Bhangin' It (music/lyrics by Sam Willmott, book by me and Rehana Mirza, and choreography by Rujuta Vaidya), courtesy of the Jerome Robbins Foundation. Press release here:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Project-Springboard-Announces-Winners-of-Second-Annual-Residency-Awards-20180502

​Rehana and I recently became Artists-in-Residence at La Jolla Playhouse, which is my hometown theater and the recent producers of my play Tiger Style! While in residence we'll be working on Bhangin' It and a trilogy they commissioned:
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/theater/sd-et-theater-playhouseartists-20180424-story.html

And finally, after 4 years of working there and 8 years of applying, I've just been accepted into the latest class of New Dramatists:
http://newdramatists.org/news/17/05/2018/new-playwrights-join-new-dramatists%E2%80%99-resident-playwright-company
]]><![CDATA[Ma-Yi presents "Teenage Dick" at the Public]]>Thu, 29 Mar 2018 18:00:22 GMThttps://www.mikelew.com/news/ma-yi-presents-teenage-dick-at-the-publicGet yer tix. Ma-Yi presents the world premiere of "Teenage Dick" at the Public. June 12-July 15 directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel and starring Gregg Mozgala who commissioned and started this whole crazy mess. Tix here:
https://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/1516/Teenage-Dick/?SiteTheme=JoesPub]]><![CDATA[PEN Emerging Playwright Award]]>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:19:10 GMThttps://www.mikelew.com/news/pen-emerging-playwright-awardGrateful to have just received the PEN/Laura Pels Emerging American Playwright Award!

Press release here.]]>