{"id":7786,"date":"2022-02-23T18:16:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T23:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=7786"},"modified":"2022-02-23T18:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T23:16:46","slug":"aditi-kapil-about-the-artist-24","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=7786","title":{"rendered":"Mike Lew: About the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"706\" data-id=\"7780\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mike-Lew-Headshot.png?resize=695%2C706&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7780\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Teenage-Dick_Gregg-Mozgala_Photo-by-Teresa-Castracane2-scaled.jpg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here to <a href=\"http:\/\/mike%20lew\/\">listen to his interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Mike Lew (Playwright): <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tiger Style!\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Huntington Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory, Olney Theatre Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Alliance Theatre; O\u2019Neill workshop) and\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tiger Style! An Audio Play.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Other plays include\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tiny father<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(Audible; Cape Cod Theater Project and Ojai Playwrights Conference workshops);\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teenage Dick<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(Woolly Mammoth, Seattle Rep, Donmar Warehouse, Ma-Yi Theatre Company; O\u2019Neill workshop);\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bike America<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(Ma-Yi Theater Company, Alliance Theatre); and\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">microcrisis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(Ma-Yi Theater Company, InterAct Theatre Company). He and Rehana Lew Mirza are Mellon Foundation Playwrights in Residence at Ma-Yi Theater Company where they cowrote\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Colonialism Trilogy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and the book to\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bhangin\u2019 It<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0with composer\/lyricist Sam Willmott (La Jolla Playhouse; Richard Rodgers Award; Project Springboard and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat workshops). Other: Dramatists Guild Council member, Tony voter, and New Dramatists resident. Honors: Guggenheim, Lark Venturous, and NYFA fellowships; Kleban, PEN, Lanford Wilson, Helen Merrill, Heideman, and Kendeda awards. Education: Juilliard, Yale. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikelew.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mikelew.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to listen to his interview. Mike Lew (Playwright): Tiger Style!\u00a0(Huntington Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory, Olney Theatre Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Alliance Theatre; O\u2019Neill workshop) and\u00a0Tiger Style! An Audio Play.\u00a0Other plays include\u00a0tiny father\u00a0(Audible; Cape Cod Theater Project and Ojai Playwrights Conference workshops);\u00a0Teenage Dick\u00a0(Woolly Mammoth, Seattle Rep, Donmar Warehouse, Ma-Yi Theatre Company; O\u2019Neill workshop);\u00a0Bike<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=7786' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7786","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-21A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7790,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7786\/revisions\/7790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}