{"id":444,"date":"2022-07-23T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/artnow\/?page_id=444"},"modified":"2022-11-06T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T03:22:53","slug":"mike-lew","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/artnow\/mike-lew\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Lew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Lew is a Brooklyn-based Chinese American playwright. His plays include Teenage Dick<\/em>, Tiger Style!<\/em>, microcrisis<\/em>, and Moustache Guys<\/em>. His work has been developed and produced at Wooly Mammoth, Huntington Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Olney Theatre, Ma-Yi Theatre Company at the Public Theatre, and La Jolla Playhouse. He is a Tony voter, a member of the Dramatists Guild Council, and a resident of the New Dramatists. He is a Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Ma-Yi as well as a former La Jolla Playhouse Artist-in-Residence. His honors include Lark Venturous and NYFA fellowships and the Kleban, PEN Emerging Playwright, Lanford Wilson, Helen Merrill, Heideman, and Kendeda awards. He is also the former co-director of Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the largest collective of Asian-American playwrights in the country. He received his B.A. at Yale University, double majoring in Theater (director) and English (writing), then received his artist diploma in playwriting at the Juilliard school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Career Highlight<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Lew was selected to be a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021 for Drama and Performance Art.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teenage Dick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n