The Car Plays Ride Again at the Without Walls Festival in San Diego

My short play "Drop Off Day" -- about a mom dropping her daughter off at college -- is part of Moving Arts' THE CAR PLAYS, which is now running in San Diego as part of the Without Walls Festival of site-specific work at La Jolla Playhouse.

The festival was featured in the New York Times today -- a nice (and surprising) bit of good press!

Drop-Off Day

Written by EM Lewis
Directed by Dana Harrel
Featuring Wendy Waddell as Barbara and Dana Lau as Soo Min

Infinite Black Suitcase at University of Southern California - October 31 - November 3, 2013

Infinite Black Suitcase - Written by EM Lewis, directed by Robert Bailey.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.  October 31 - November 3, 2013.

Infinite Black Suitcase

Written by EM Lewis
Directed by Robert Bailey

October 31 - November 3, 2013

McClintock Theater
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

An insightful and endearing examination of the lives of three Oregonian families as they attempt to deal with the trauma of death and dying as humanly and lovingly as possible.

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Reading to Vegetables at University of Washington - Jan. 29 - Feb. 9

Reading to Vegetables

written by EM Lewis
directed by Tina Polzin

January 29 - February 9, 2014
Glen Hughes Penthouse Theater
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

The opportunity to bring a brand new play from page to stage is rare for student directors. With Reading to Vegetables, Tina Polzin, a student in our Professional Director Training Program (PDTP), will work directly with Portland-based playwright EM Lewis to create a Hitchcockian world of suspense on stage for the very first time. Inspired by Milgram’s famous “Obedience to Authority Studies” of the 1960s, this psychological thriller centers on a pre-med student, working as a research assistant, who poses as a coma victim. Her test subjects unwittingly share their secrets, and when a terrible accident occurs, the audience is left to decide who is responsible. The heightened stakes of this reality-based drama irrevocably lead to the question, “What would you do?”

A post-show talk will be held on Thursday, February 6.

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Heads at The REP in Pittsburgh - Jan. 31 - Feb. 16

Heads, by EM Lewis - directed by John Shepard.  Pittsburgh Premiere at The REP.

Heads 

Pittsburgh Premiere

Written by EM Lewis
Directed by John Shepard
Studio Theatre

Friday, Jan. 31 – Sunday, Feb. 16

An American engineer. A British embassy employee. A network journalist. And a freelance photographer. As hostages in a war zone, each responds to the unbearable situation differently, with stark reality and difficult choices. Heads is a heartwrenching story about finding hope and intimacy in an environment with seemingly no way out.

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Finding (and Losing) a Theatrical Home in New Jersey

Jeremy Stoller asked me to contribute to the series on New Jersey theater he's curating for HowlRound, and I was glad to have the chance to share. I ♥ NJ! And appreciate the friendship, support, and community I found there.

Finding (and Losing) a Theatrical Home in New Jersey