Playwright

Mike
Lew

(he/him)

Mike Lew’s plays include tiny father (Geffen Playhouse, Barrington Stage Company/Chautauqua Theater Company, Audible; Cape Cod Theatre Project and Ojai Playwrights Conference workshops); Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse, Ma-Yi Theatre Company/The Public Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, The Huntington, Pasadena Playhouse, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center); Tiger Style! (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, South Coast Repertory, Olney Theatre Center, The Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center); Bike America (Ma-Yi Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre); and microcrisis (Ma-Yi Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company). Alongside composer Sam Willmott he and Rehana Lew Mirza co-wrote the book to Bhangra Nation (La Jolla Playhouse, Birmingham Rep; Project Springboard and Rhinebeck workshops). Awards/Fellowships: Guggenheim, Dramatists Guild Council, New Dramatists, Mellon/HowlRound, Lark Venturous, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Foundation for the Arts, PEN America, Richard Rodgers, Lanford Wilson, Helen Merrill, Weissberger, Heideman, and Kendeda. Education: Juilliard, Yale.