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TONY LEWIS
(1981 - )Nationality: USA
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Tony Lewis was born in Louisville KY to Bill and Mary anne Lewis and has one older sister, TriciA. From messy finger-paints to notebook doodles to angsty poetry, art has been a driving force for Tony since his early years. Growing up, his cousins were his cast in yearly holiday productions (sometimes against their will). What started as little pageants grew as Tony did. Quality of scripts, sets and costumes were not lost on these shabby basement productions and his family was always anticipating their little thespian's passion. His family has aLWaYS been a huge influence on his life as an artist and gay man. Tony performed throughout highschool and when the time came for higher education, Tony wanted to continue to follow this driving passion in his life. Tony attended the Theatre Conservatory at Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL. During those 4 years of Theatre and life training, Tony grew as an artist and man and when graduation came, an idea began to formulate in his mind. He began to work on an adaptation of a MIDSUMMeR NIGHT's DReaM. Gender changes, addition of an anti-gay marriage decree and alteration of Shakespeare's fairy-filled forest to a Vagrant-filled "Boyshood", provided Tony a voice and message for the gay community. His youthful optimism told him he better get it produced with haste before gay-marriage was legalized, so he and fellow Roosevelt alumni formed the Theatre Company, MidTangent Productions. For four years MTP has brought a MIDSUMMeR NIGHT's DReaM: a QUeeR TaLe to the stage along with other productions (FaSCINaTION, I aM HaMLeT, @MOSPHeRe 54). With the support of over a hundred artists, designers and supporters, this dream was made a reality. In addition to Theatre, Tony is also a singer, choreographer, fiction writer and professional event planner. 2008 Recipient of the Windy City Times 30 Under 30 award- Theatre MaSTeRMIND. 2008 Recipient of Chicago after Dark awards for Outstanding adaptation/Direction/Choreography
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Fascination I Am Hamlet Midsummer Night's Dream: A Queer TaleFascination
Synopsis:
Two Americans stuck on a train from Munich to Paris together talk about the skeletons in their closets. One desperately wants to be celebrity ashton Kutcher and is stalking him. the other is tracking down her gay ex-husband to get a divorce. What can happen on a train in 45 minutes? Confusion, drinking, joking, breakfast, more drinking. . .even love perhaps?
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1st Produced:
MidTangent Productions, Oracle theatre 2006
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MidTangent Productions
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Genre:
Comedy One act
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: Play can be performed with or without narrators/ non-speaking ensemble
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Top of PageI Am Hamlet
Synopsis:
This adapted version of Shakespeare's HaMLeT uses masks, dance, text and movement to diagnose the modern day afflictions of Hamlet, Laertes, and Ophelia. In a twist in the end, the audience finds that all has not been as it seems when we see that Hamlet, Ophelia and Laertes are patients of elsinore asylum and the rest of the players are the doctors and workers of this dreary setting.
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1st Produced:
MidTangent Productions, Oracle theatre 2007
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MidTangent Productions
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Genre:
adapted Shakespeare
Parts:
Male: 9 Female: 7 Other: -
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Top of PageMidsummer Night's Dream: A Queer Tale
Synopsis:
This highly adapted and re-written version of MIDSUMMeR is set in the fictional Boyshood, mirroring Chicago's Boystown, the local gay neighborhood. By adding an anti-gay marriage decree to the mix and a lot of gender bending this version of MIDSUMMeR soars into the new millennium with 12 Production/ Dance/ drag numbers throughout. Titania is a drag queen, Oberon is a leather-daddy and the Fairyz are. . .well Fairyz. the lovers find who they are and more importantly who they love. a twist in the usual farsical, comedic Play within a Play brings relevance to the issues facing homosexual youth struggling to come out of the closet.
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Written with William Shakespeare
1st Produced:
Links Hall, N Sheffield, Chicago 2005
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MidTangent Productions
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Genre:
Gay Comedy. - - Gay, full length
Parts:
Male: 11 Female: 7 Other: -
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