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Sean Christopher Lewis

SEAN CHRISTOPHER LEWIS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency  

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.

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         Aperture, The         City Of Numbers         Dream Street         Freedom         Gone Chair, The         Homeschooling Of Jonathan Anderson, The         I Will Make You Orphans         Killadelphia         Militant Language: A Play With Sand         Odysseus, Iowa         Road To Eden, The

Aperture, The

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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1st Produced:
the New School for Drama Theater, New York International Fringe Festival    2009

Organisations:
Cleveland Public Theatre

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0h 55m Drama Fringehigh

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City Of Numbers

Synopsis:
a group of lifers create a mural for a Philadelphia park and talk about their lives

Notes:
Based on interviews with violent criminals And victims of violent crime

1st Produced:
adrienne Theater, Philadelphia, Pa    22 Jan 2010

Organisations:
Interact Theatre Company

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Genre:
Drama

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Dream Street

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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1st Produced:
reading at adirondack Theatre Festival    26 Jun 2011

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Play/Drama

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Freedom

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.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
authors Brian Dykstra, Andrea Moon, C. Denby Swanson, Trish Harnetiaux, Richard Mover, Sean Christopher Lewis, eric Henry Sanders, Kate McCamy

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theDrillingCompaNY

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Genre:
short play

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Gone Chair, The

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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1st Produced:
Penn State University's Cultural Conversations Festival    -

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Piece

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Homeschooling Of Jonathan Anderson, The

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1st Produced:
Drilling Company theatre
107 West 82nd Street, #1a, New York, NY 10024    -

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I Will Make You Orphans

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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1st Produced:
Uno Festival of Solo performance    -

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Killadelphia

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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1st Produced:
Gerald W. Lynch at John Jay College    2009

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Militant Language: A Play With Sand

Militant Language: A Play With Sand
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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1st Produced:
Know Theatre of Cincinnati    2008

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1st Published:
Original Works, Los Angeles >>>    978-1-934962-37-4

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Odysseus, Iowa

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written by Sean Christopher Lewis and Jennifer Fawcett

1st Produced:
The Country Camp, Iowa City, IA    10 Jun 2010

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Road To Eden, The

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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1st Produced:
20/20 New Play Comission    2009

Organisations:
Interact Theatre Co

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

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