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Michael Lew

MICHAEL LEW  

 Nationality:    Asian American
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Michael Lew. Michael Lew's plays include a Better Babylon (Youngblood and Victory Gardens workshops); Stockton (EST workshop production); Yit, Ngay (published in Plays and Playwrights 2006 and excerpted in The Best Women's Monologues for the 21st Century); andMoustache Guys (2g). His shorts includeTenure (24 Hour Plays on Broadway);Roanoke (Humana Festival); In Paris You Will Find Many Baguettes but Only One True Love (Humana Festival/Heideman award winner/InspiraTO Festival winner);The Roosevelt Cousins, Thoroughly Sauced (Sam French Festival winner); andMagician Ben Vs. The Wizard Merlin(published by Smith & Kraus). Residencies/fellowships include Youngblood, Ma-Yi Writers' Lab, Old Vic New Voices, TCG Young Leaders of Color, and 2g. Mr. Lew was a Westinghouse finalist for his work on homeobox genes and graduated from Yale College in 2003.

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below is a list of Michael Lew's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Better Babylon, A         Bikram & Cheekochio: The Musical         Bury The Iron Horse         In Paris You Will Find Many Baguettes But Only One True Love         Magician Ben Versus Wizard Merlin         Microcrisis         Moustache Guys         Paper Gods         Roanoke         Roosevelt Cousins, Thoroughly Sauced, The         Will Sing         Yit, Ngay (One, Two)

Better Babylon, A

Synopsis:
In 1960s UC Berkeley, a wave of student radicalism engulfs a young Chinese couple, a black protester, and a Chicana biologist. Personal dreams collide with political conscience, testing the limits of mentorship, friendship, and love.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

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Bikram & Cheekochio: The Musical

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Part of the fifth Annual presentation of Seven.11 Convenience Theatre from Desipina & Company, which is A program of seven eleven-minute plays created by South Asian/East Asian American Artists. book And lyrics by Michael Lew And Rehana Mirza, music by Samrat Chakrabarti

1st Produced:
Henry Street Settlement    2007

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Desipina & Company

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eleven minute play One act

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Bury The Iron Horse

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This is it, bitches: Iron Horse Park.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

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2G    2009

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In Paris You Will Find Many Baguettes But Only One True Love

Michael Lew
Liz is looking for true love and Lindy is looking to fix her broken heart, so they head, of course, to Paris. When Liz finds the man of her dreams, Lindy faces a dilemma: can she just let her friend be happy?

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Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays brings together All eleven scripts from the 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 32nd Annual cycle of world premiere productions staged At Actors Theatre of Louisville. The seven full-length plays And four ten-minute plays represent An exceptional Array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in American theatre

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   978-0-9709046-8-3

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comedy Ten Min

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Magician Ben Versus Wizard Merlin

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Microcrisis

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Microcrisis is a dark comedy about what happens when a shady investment banker exploits "microcredit" - the Nobel Prize-winning practice of providing small loans to Third World businesses to alleviate poverty and spur social change - and ravages the global economy in the process, with surprisingly hilarious results.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
HERE Arts Center - Mainstage
145 6th avenue, New York, NY 10013    05 Oct 2010

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Ma-Yi Theater

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dark comedy

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Moustache Guys

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The International Order of the Moustache Guys is a secret society of shady men characterized by even shadier facial hair. Believing her husband is their latest member, ali dons a moustache and goes undercover to infiltrate enemy lines. Dealing with characters from Evil Twin Brother and Teen Father to Tom Selleck and Kentucky Prosecutor, there seems to be no end in sight for ali when it comes to wacky, ridiculous moustachioed creatures in this rapid, laugh-out-loud comedy.

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Second Generation (2G) (New York, NY, United States)    2008

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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20-35 min Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female, 7 either (3-15 actors possible: 1-14 males, 1-14 females)

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Paper Gods

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Ma-Yi    2006

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Roanoke

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33rd Humana Festival

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in Humana Festival 2009: The Complete Plays, Playscripts Inc   -

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Roosevelt Cousins, Thoroughly Sauced, The

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It's during prohibition, FDR and Eleanor are still fairly young, stuck in Georgia at a Polio clinic and getting drunk on illegal moonshine. as they imbibe, Eleanor tries to convince FDR to run for office. The more drunk they get, the more their comments become absurd and anachronistic, the author's voice entering the text making for a very silly romp.

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part of Thicker Than Water A program of new short work from Youngblood

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Youngblood

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One act

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Will Sing

Synopsis:
an experiment in inappropriate singing.
- nytheatre.com

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part of Ice Cubes A one time only Ice Factory studio series. By The Ma-Yi Theater Company Writers Lab (Samantha Chanse, Carla Ching, Mia Chung, Michael Lew And Qui Nguyen)

1st Produced:
3LD art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10016    28 Jul 2011

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Ma-Yi Theater Company

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Yit, Ngay (One, Two)

Michael Lew
Four sisters-two brought up in China, two born in America-talk about family. MICHaEL LEW is a Yale graduate, class of 2003 and is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Directors' Lab. (read an interview with the author)

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