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MICHAEL LEW |
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Nationality: Asian American Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Michael Lew. Michael Lew's plays include A Better Babylon (Youngblood and Victory Gardens workshops); Stockton (EST workshop production); Yit, Ngay (published in Plays and Playwrights 2006 and excerpted in The Best Women's Monologues for the 21st Century); andMoustache Guys (2g). His shorts includeTenure (24 Hour Plays on Broadway);Roanoke (Humana Festival); In Paris You Will Find Many Baguettes but Only One True Love (Humana Festival/Heideman Award winner/InspiraTO Festival winner);The Roosevelt Cousins, Thoroughly Sauced (Sam French Festival winner); andMagician Ben Vs. The Wizard Merlin(published by Smith & Kraus). Residencies/fellowships include Youngblood, Ma-Yi Writers' Lab, Old Vic New Voices, TCG Young Leaders of Color, and 2g. Mr. Lew was a Westinghouse finalist for his work on homeobox genes and graduated from Yale College in 2003.
Plays by Michael Lew
Better Babylon, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89619 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | In 1960s UC Berkeley, a wave of student radicalism engulfs a young Chinese couple, a black protester, and a Chicana biologist. Personal dreams collide with political conscience, testing the limits of mentorship, friendship, and love. | |||||
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Bikram & Cheekochio: The Musical | ||
| 1st Produced: | Henry Street Settlement | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Desipina & Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63638 | |||
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Genre: | eleven minute play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of the fifth annual presentation of Seven.11 Convenience Theatre from Desipina & Company, which is a program of seven eleven-minute plays created by South Asian/East Asian American artists. book and lyrics by Michael Lew and Rehana Mirza, music by Samrat Chakrabarti | |||||
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Bury The Iron Horse | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2G | 2009 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #110183 | |||
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Synopsis: | This is it, bitches: Iron Horse Park. | |||||
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In Paris You Will Find Many Baguettes but Only One True Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9709046-8-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96597 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays brings together all eleven scripts from the 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 32nd annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The seven full-length plays and four ten-minute plays represent an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in American theatre | |||||
| Liz is looking for true love and Lindy is looking to fix her broken heart, so they head, of course, to Paris. When Liz finds the man of her dreams, Lindy faces a dilemma: can she just let her friend be happy? | |||||
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Magician Ben Versus Wizard Merlin | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72946 | |||
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Microcrisis | ||
| 1st Produced: | HERE Arts Center - Mainstage | 05 Oct 2010 | ||||
Company: | Ma-Yi Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119641 | |||
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Genre: | dark comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Microcrisis is a dark comedy about what happens when a shady investment banker exploits "microcredit"the Nobel Prize-winning practice of providing small loans to Third World businesses to alleviate poverty and spur social changeand ravages the global economy in the process, with surprisingly hilarious results. | |||||
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Moustache Guys | ||
| 1st Produced: | Second Generation (2G) (New York, NY, United States) | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81986 | |||
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Genre: | 20-35 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 1 female, 7 either (3-15 actors possible: 1-14 males, 1-14 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | The International Order of the Moustache Guys is a secret society of shady men characterized by even shadier facial hair. Believing her husband is their latest member, Ali dons a moustache and goes undercover to infiltrate enemy lines. Dealing with characters from Evil Twin Brother and Teen Father to Tom Selleck and Kentucky Prosecutor, there seems to be no end in sight for Ali when it comes to wacky, ridiculous moustachioed creatures in this rapid, laugh-out-loud comedy. | |||||
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Paper Gods | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ma-Yi | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #110184 | |||
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Roanoke | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | 33rd Humana Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Humana Festival 2009: The Complete Plays, Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112895 | |||
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Roosevelt Cousins, Thoroughly Sauced, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Youngblood | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 32nd series, Samuel French, Inc - New York >>>, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62572 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of Thicker Than Water a program of new short work from Youngblood | |||||
Synopsis: | It's during prohibition, FDR and Eleanor are still fairly young, stuck in Georgia at a Polio clinic and getting drunk on illegal moonshine. As they imbibe, Eleanor tries to convince FDR to run for office. The more drunk they get, the more their comments become absurd and anachronistic, the author's voice entering the text making for a very silly romp. | |||||
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Will Sing | ||
| 1st Produced: | 3LD Art & Technology Center | 28 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Ma-Yi Theater Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129489 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
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Notes: | part of Ice Cubes a one time only Ice Factory studio series. By The Ma-Yi Theater Company Writers Lab (Samantha Chanse, Carla Ching, Mia Chung, Michael Lew and Qui Nguyen) | |||||
Synopsis: | An experiment in inappropriate singing. | |||||
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Yit, Ngay (One, Two) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays and Playwrights 2006, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 09670234-7-5 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47186 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| Four sisters-two brought up in China, two born in America-talk about family. MICHAEL LEW is a Yale graduate, class of 2003 and is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Directors' Lab. (read an interview with the author) | |||||
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