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E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, teacher, musical theater writer, and opera librettist. Her work has been produced around the world, and is published by Samuel French.

Lewis received the Steinberg Award (twice!) and the Primus Prize from the American Theater Critics Association, the Ted Schmitt Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a fellowship from New Jersey State Arts Commission, an Oregon Literary Fellowship in Drama, and an Edgerton Award.  

Plays include:

Operas include:

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant (with composer Evan Meier)

Town Hall (with composer Theo Popov)

Musicals include:

In the Deep (with composer Clarence Roscoe McDonald

Lewis spent six years as the Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Artists Repertory Theater. She is a proud member of LineStorm Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild. She lives on her family’s farm in Oregon.