https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-cVWPoMABo
Monday, July 15, 2024
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant at PSU!
This new opera by composer Evan Meier and librettist E. M. Lewis had its academic premiere at Portland State University in December 2023!
Strange Birds in the Fertile Ground Festival!
LineStorm presents Strange Birds by E. M. Lewis in the 2024 Fertile Ground Festival!
https://fertilegroundpdx.org/strange-birds/
Festival coverage by Krista Garver!
https://www.broadwayworld.com/portland/article/FERTILE-GROUND-ROUNDUP-2-20240424
Monday, January 22, 2024
1st Stage production of How the Light Gets In garners 8 Helen Hayes Award Nominations!
Congratulations to Artistic Director Alex Levy, and everyone at 1st Stage in Tysons, Virginia! The Helen Hayes Award Nominations were just announced, and their beautiful production of my play How the Light Gets In received a whopping EIGHT NOMINATIONS, in a variety of categories!
Outstanding Production
Outstanding Ensemble in a Play
Alex Levy for Outstanding Director of a Play
Jacob Yeh and Joel Ashur for
Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Play
Kathryn Kawecki for Outstanding Set Design
Helen Garcia-Alton for Outstanding Lighting Design
Gordon Nimmo-Smith for Outstanding Sound Design
https://theatrewashington.org/updates/2024-helen-hayes-award-nominees
Monday, January 31, 2022
Join us for a Reading of Apple Hunters! in the Fertile Ground Festival
Hey, friends! Do you have your tickets to Apple Hunters!?! We just had our second rehearsal, and I love these actors so much. This is the first reading a brand new play. It's about a quest to find a lost variety of apple. And... well, you know. Other stuff, too.
Zoom reading - watch from home!
Produced by LineStorm Playwrights
for the Fertile Ground Festival
Featuring John San Nicolas, Eric Pargac, Vin Shambry, Josh Weinstein, and Barbie Wu.
Tuesday, February 1 at 7pm
Get your FREE ticket now at the Fertile Ground Festival website.
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Play - an essay for HowlRound
In December 2020, the folks at HowlRound Theater Commons published an essay I wrote called "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Play." Inspired, of course, by the wonderful poem by Wallace Stevens, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," I endeavored to look both poetically and craftily at the various angles a playwright might use to engage with a work in progress.
Read it here: https://howlround.com/thirteen-ways-looking-play
Thursday, August 5, 2021
August 10th and 11th - So You Want to Write an Opera?
I'm looking forward to taking part in the Dramatist Guild's upcoming webinar! Please join us if you're working in opera as a librettist or composer, or would like to!
August Craft Webinars: So You Want to Write an Opera
Librettist/Playwrights Roundtable on AUGUST 10 - Noon Pacific/3pm Eastern Time
Playwrights, librettists, and lyricists from both theatre and opera will discuss the differences in writing for each medium, and how to make the crossover, with personal anecdotes and examples drawn from their experience. This webinar is open to questions from the public. Moderated by Deborah Brevoort. Featuring: Mark Campbell, E. M. Lewis, Sandra Seaton, and David Henry Hwang.
Composers Roundtable on AUGUST 11 - Noon Pacific/3pm Eastern Time
Composers experienced in both opera and theatre writing will discuss the pivotal role of the composer in originating and creating new operatic works for both the traditional operatic stage and new experimental venues, how opera composers find librettists and what they look for in an opera libretto, and what composers believe librettists to know, or learn, in order to serve the specialized needs of an operatic score. Featuring: Kamala Sankaram and Stephen Schwartz.
The conversations from the webinars will be published in The Dramatist Guild’s magazine, The Dramatist, in the November/December 2021 “Opera Issue”-- the first time the Guild has devoted a complete issue to this topic!
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