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Caleb Lewis

CALEB LEWIS

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Caleb studied playwriting at Flinders University, later being mentored by Nick enright. In 2004 'songs for the Deaf' opened at the Adelaide Fringe and Lewis began a two-year residency with Griffin Theatre Company culminating in the 2005 premiere of 'Nailed'. 'the Sea Bride', won the 2006 Inscription emerging Playwright award earning a two-week workshop with playwright Edward albee. In 2007 'Dogfall' opened in Adelaide to critical acclaim. In 2008 'songs for the Deaf 'toured to Hong Kong; later that year Caleb was awarded an aWGIe for 'Otzi the story of the Iceman'. His play, 'men, Love and the Monkeyboy' was shortlisted for the Griffin award and is the winner of the 2008 Mitch Matthews award. In 2009 'Death in Bowengabbie' was nominated best production at the Adelaide Fringe and won the judge's commendation for best new writing. the play opened in Sydney last March, and in November a second production was mounted by Merigong Theatre Co in Wollongong. Current projects include a steampunk/Chekhov mashup for DropBear Theatre Co and commissions for Bell Shakespeare, Onward Productions and State Theatre Company South Australia. This year 'Ghost Sharks' (awarded a 2010 Moosehead award) tours to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and TRS present 'Betsy' at Sydney's Old Fitzroy Hotel. Caleb was recently announced the inaugural winner of the Richard Burton award, for his historical play, 'Clinchfield'. He is pretty chuffed.

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

         Aleksander and the Robot Maid         Bunny         Clinchfield         Crystal         Death In Bowengabbie         Dogfall         Half Windsor, The         Honey Bees, The         Maggie Stone         Men, Love And the Monkey Boy         Nailed         Rocketbaby         Rust And Bone         Sea Bride, The         Songs for the Deaf
Aleksander and the Robot Maid

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Bunny

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Late one night on an empty beach, a bear and a rabbit find one another. a gentle love story about lovelessness as two damaged souls try to connect.

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part of Songs For the Dead

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Adelaide Fringe     2004

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short tragicomedy

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Clinchfield

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inaugural winner of the Richard Burton Award

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historical play

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Crystal

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Something weird is happening in the Riverland. . .Crystal follows six young kids as an other-worldly storm descends on their neighbourhood, threatening to break their homes and tear apart their families. Crystal adopts elements of magic realism and suburban ennui to explore divorce and its effects upon families and children in an altogether unique and utterly theatrical form.

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Magic realism, surreal apocalyptic family Drama

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Death In Bowengabbie

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Adelaide Fringe     2009

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Dogfall

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Adelaide     2007

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Half Windsor, The

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a man, a bum, an empty alley. a Darwinian battle for status and survival in the bowels of Sydney's lower depths.

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part of Songs For the Dead

1st Produced:
Adelaide Fringe     2004

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short tragicomedy

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Honey Bees, The

Honey Bees, The
As the worlds honeybees disappear, a family-owned apiary struggles to keep up with overseas demand. Driven by matriarch Joans iron will, the business continues to grow. And then Melissa arrives out of the blue. The Honey Bees is a tale of family and empire; action and consequences; and what happens when the bee finally stings.

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1st Produced:
Red Stitch Actors Theatre, St Kilda     14 Jun 2016

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Play/Drama

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Maggie Stone

Maggie Stone
Stone in both heart and name, loans officer Maggie has no sympathy for the applicants who cross her path daily, no matter how desperate their stories may be. While possessed of a nice line in sardonic humour, Maggie's existence is one of disappointment and her view of the world narrow. Streets away, but worlds apart, African refugee Amath struggles to build a new life for herself and her two children after her husband's murder. When Amath is brought to Maggie by a desperate friend, compassion finally flickers and, and whilst sheer hope is not a bankable currency, there may be other ways that Maggie can help. However this means revisiting a life she had long hoped to forget. . .Just what value can you put on another person's life? Would you do the unthinkable to save the people you loved most?

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1st Produced:
Space Theatre, Australia     08 Nov 2013

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State Theatre Company of South Australia

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Currency press, Australia   

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Men, Love And the Monkey Boy

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What motivates the male of the species. Phillip spends his days studying primate behavior. His specialist subject? the Gorilla, man's second closest cousin. He need not look far for inspiration. His father, Robbo, is 55 going on 16 and will forever be "one of the boys", his brother-in-law Dave has lost his sex drive since his wife's promotion; and his best mate Rex seems determined to prove his virility by pursuing anything that moves. With role models like these, what's a boy to do when he meets a nice girl? Will he rise above the monkey business and woo her like a gentleman? Or does he employ gorilla tactics to land his mate? Will he emerge as a champ, chump or chimp? - Information extracted from austLit: http://www.austlit.edu.au

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shortlisted for the Griffin Award And is the winner of the 2008 Mitch Matthews Award.

1st Produced:
Darlinghurst Theatre     2008

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Darlinghurst Theatre Company, Riverside Productions and Shaman Productions

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Genre:
Comedy drama 95 min

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Nailed

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Australia. 1959. Teenagers, Joe and May, are on the run from the aboriginal mission where May has been living. With May close to giving birth they take refuge in a stable owned by a childless couple on the run from each other. as the rooster crows, all grapple for the thing that will make them whole. Will the angels intervene to protect the one they love? 'Nailed' is a play about family and love and the things we do out of desperation, a bittersweet love-story and a tragedy about damaged people limping towards salvation. It is a story about Faith, when it delivers us and when it fails us.

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Stables Theatre, Sydney     2005

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Griffin Theatre

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Play/Drama 100 min

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Rocketbaby

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When Becca's mum leaves, Dad and the kids hatch a plan to win her back. If Mum sees her little babies on her favourite T V show, "Australia's Funniest Home Videos", she will miss them so much she will just have to come back. the car is sold, a second hand video camera is bought and the injuries begin. . . 'Rocketbaby' is a pitch black comedy. It won the Write Now National play competition held by Naked theatre Company and premiered at the Old Fitzroy Hotel in Sydney 2003.

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part of Songs For the Dead

1st Produced:
Adelaide Fringe     2004

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short tragicomedy

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Rust And Bone

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Three men, each a ball of tightly coiled fury, tell their gory stories. One is a fighter, too old and broken to win, but who nevertheless continues to step into the ring and cop another beating, maybe because he deserves it. another loves dogs, and loves fighting them to the death. the final man is a killer whale trainer whose daily aqua-acrobatic show goes horribly, horribly wrong. This is a brutal world of broken gods and sinuous monsters, regrets, denial, big dreams and hard-boiled Drama.

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adapted from stories by Craig Davidson

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Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, Australia     17 Mar 2011

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Sea Bride, The

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won the 2006 Inscription emerging Playwright Award earning A two-week workshop with playwright edward Albee

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Songs for the Deaf

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Songs for the Deaf' is a triptych of new works fusing fantasy and realism with rapid-fire dialogue and gritty characterisation. each play is a dark opus of high tragedy and savage black comedy in which the mundane and the magical intertwine, where modern suburbia and old world myth collide to form a suburban dystopia of meat pies and madness, Hills hoists and heart attacks. 'Bunny' Late one night on an empty beach, a bear and a rabbit find one another. A gentle love story about lovelessness as two damaged souls try to connect. 'the Half Windsor' A man, a bum, an empty alley. A Darwinian battle for status and survival in the bowels of Sydney's lower depths. 'Rocketbaby' When Becca's mum leaves, Dad and the kids hatch a plan to win her back. If Mum sees her little babies on her favourite T V show, "Australia's Funniest Home Videos", she will miss them so much she will just have to come back. the car is sold, a second hand video camera is bought and the injuries begin. . . 'Rocketbaby' is a pitch black comedy. It won the Write Now National play competition held by Naked theatre Company and premiered at the Old Fitzroy Hotel in Sydney 2003.

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Bunny' - 1F, 1M; 'the Half Windsor' - 2M; 'Rocketbaby' - 1F

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Three short tragicomedies 60 min

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