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SEAN CHRISTOPHER LEWIS |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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SEAN CHRISTOPHER LEWIS is the inaugural recipient of the Rosa Parks Award for Social Justice in Playwriting from the Kennedy Center. A former NNPN Emerging Playwright in Residence at InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia he has toured his critically lauded solo shows I WILL MAKE YOU ORPHANS (Uno Festival of Solo Performance, Available Light 01 Festival, Equinox Theatre, Riverside Theatre, Center for Independent Artists, Galapagos Art Space, Hyde Park Theatre, TIXE Arts Center, Bowery Poetry Club, National College Tour), THE GONE CHAIR (Penn State University's Cultural Conversations Festival, Openstage Harrisburg's Flying Solo Festival, Riverside Theatre) and KILLADELPHIA (Baltimore CENTERSTAGE, InterAct Theatre, University of Kansas, Available Light Theatre, Penn State University, John Jay College/Epic Theatre). As an actor he has worked Off Broadway at the Pearl Theatre, in NYC at La Mama ETC and regionally at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO, Saratoga Shakespeare, Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival, Iowa Summer Repertory, Shadow Lawn Stage and the National Theater for the Performing Arts. He most recently starred in the feature films GOD'S COUNTRY and BLOOD FANTASY.
Plays by Sean Christopher Lewis
Aperture, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The New School for Drama Theater, New York International Fringe Festival | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Cleveland Public Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #100978 | |||
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Genre: | 0h 55m Drama Fringehigh | |||||
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Synopsis: | Inaugural winner of the Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwright Award. In the woods outside of Baltimore, Alex McGregor is staging fake photos of war torn Uganda. Notoriety follows until her subject - a boy soldier refugee - reverts, committing a horrible crime. | |||||
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City Of Numbers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adrienne Theater, Philadelphia, PA | 22 Jan 2010 | ||||
Company: | InterAct Theatre 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 | #131583 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Based on interviews with violent criminals and victims of violent crime | |||||
Synopsis: | A group of lifers create a mural for a Philadelphia park and talk about their lives | |||||
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Dream Street | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at Adirondack Theatre Festival | 26 Jun 2011 | ||||
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 | #127404 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | South Street, right here in Glens Falls, is the setting for his highly anticipated playone of the first pieces commissioned by our new ATF Founder's Fund for New Work. Based on interviews with residents, business owners, community leaders and others with intimate knowledge of the area, the play takes a fresh look at the past, present and future of the historic street. Since the late 18th century, South Street has been the home of bars, gambling, restaurants and entertainment of all kinds. It was a stop on the vaudeville circuit and a site for the storage of Canadian whiskey on its way to New York City during Prohibition. Today, South Street continues to evolve, with development efforts that some say threaten its very character. | |||||
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Freedom | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | TheDrillingCompaNY | |||||
| 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 | #97617 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | authors Brian Dykstra, Andrea Moon, C. Denby Swanson, Trish Harnetiaux, Richard Mover, Sean Christopher Lewis, Eric Henry Sanders, Kate McCamy | |||||
Synopsis: | Now in its tenth year, TheDrillingCompaNY is well known for its collections of new plays around common themes. The theme this year is FREEDOM. "We chose it because of all of the attention our FREE market economy has gotten lately and because we're still fighting wars for the same cause," says artistic director Hamilton Clancy. "Franklin Roosevelt outlined four freedoms America was responsible for defending-that was the kick-off point for playwrights." With grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, TheDrillingCompaNY commissions writers to write around the chosen theme. The directors of this year's plays are: Hamilton Clancy, Robert A. Wilson, Tom Demenkoff, Jude Domski, David Marantz, Richard Mover, and Rebecca Hengstenberg. | |||||
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Gone Chair, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Penn State University's Cultural Conversations Festival | - - - | ||||
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 | #109512 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
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Synopsis: | When his son is sent to boot camp for violent teenagers a father questions his bringing up of the boy - was it something he did? Then the boy goes missing and he sets out to find his son | |||||
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Homeschooling Of Jonathan Anderson, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Drilling Company Theatre | - - - | ||||
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 | #127405 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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I Will Make You Orphans | ||
| 1st Produced: | Uno Festival of Solo performance | - - - | ||||
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 | #109513 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
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Synopsis: | Hip-Hop, slam poetry and comedy combine to create an unforgettable theatrical experience. Meet Sean Boogie, a young man battling the expectations of his teacher, father and girlfriend. Not shy about expressing his opinions, Sean's fascination with hip-hop culture leads him to believe he is "blacker" than his African-American teacher, even though he is a white kid from upstate New York. Reaching for a way to belong, through hip-hop Boogie discovers the difference between what it is to "be" and to "wannabe. | |||||
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Killadelphia | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gerald W. Lynch at John Jay College | 2009 | ||||
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 | #97618 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Commissioned by the Mural Arts Project of Philadelphia and InterAct Theatre, Killadelphiais the latest work from award-winning playwright and solo performer Sean Christopher Lewis. In the summer of 2008, the city of Philadelphia was in the midst of a murder epidemic on par with those of some third world countries. InKilladelphia, Lewis takes an unflinching look at the causes of the increased crime rate and the effect on the community. Using hip hop and documentary theatre techniques, he interweaves the story of murdered teaching fellow Beau Zabel with interviews from inmates at Graterford Prison employed to beautify the city with more than 3,000 murals while serving out life sentences. | |||||
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Militant Language: A Play With Sand | ||
| 1st Produced: | Know Theatre of Cincinnati | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-934962-37-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97030 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Set in modern Iraq, this savage contemporary fable ignites when a pair of American soldiers return from a routine surveillance detail covered in blood. The barracks are no safe haven. The Captain fights to control his troops as they walk the high-wires of a secret homosexual affair, the sexual abuse of a female soldier, a missing Iraqi boy, and a baby found in the desert, ala Moses. This play explores how violence begets violence, lies beget lies, truth is born from trust, and understanding war makes as much sense as sand raining from the heavens. | |||||
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Road To Eden, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 20/20 New Play Comission | 2009 | ||||
Company: | InterAct Theatre Co | |||||
| 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 | #131584 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | An illegal immigrant is arrested at her place of work and taken away. She can speak no English and cannot contact her son. When the son arrives home there is no trace of his mother and he cannot go to the authorities. He tries to find her himself and ends up in Eden the place where unknown/unidentified illegals are buried | |||||
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