Heads: Playwright

EM Lewis

Biography

EM Lewis is a playwright. Her work has been produced around the country. She won the 2009 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award from the American Theater Critics Association for her play SONG OF EXTINCTION and the 2008 Primus Prize (for an emerging woman theater artist) for her Iraq War hostage drama HEADS. Her first full-length play, INFINITE BLACK SUITCASE, didn't win any awards, but she likes it anyway. Lewis is a member of Moving Arts Theater Company, the Dramatists Guild, the International Centre for Women Playwrights and the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights. She lives in Santa Monica, California now – but she is originally from Oregon.