The fruit is ripe this year, as E. M. Lewis has two apple-themed plays in Portland:
21Ten Theatre is producing APPLE SEASON, August 29 – September 21, 2025, directed by Francisco Garcia.
Read Bobby Bermea’s glowing profile in Oregon ArtsWatch!
ART is producing APPLE HUNTERS!, March 31 – April 26, 2026.
Read all about our offerings in the Willamette Week and Oregon ArtsWatch or watch our KOIN TV interview, and then get your FREE tickets here.
April 4-6, 2025 at Artists Repertory Theatre.
This Monday, March 3rd at 7:30 PM, Strange Birds by E. M. Lewis will have a one-night-only reading before it heads to Eastern Oregon for a weeklong workshop at Fishtrap.
In a remote mountain cabin, five women reckon with dark forces in this fierce and funny feminist thriller. Strange Birds is about women and wolves… and sisters… and secrets.
Written by E. M. Lewis
Directed by Melory Mirashrafi
Featuring:
Kayla Hanson as Lou
R.L. Routh as Phoebe
Sofía Marks as Gwylan
Crystal Muñoz as Jo
Taya Dixon as Whitney
Brave Sohacki as The Wolf
Stage Directions and Soundscape by Matt Cherub
Produced by Shawn Lee (ART) and Shannon McNerney (Fishtrap)
Choose from the many incredible options in the new Smith & Kraus collection: The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2024, featuring our own E. M. Lewis and Rich Rubin.
Congrats to our four finalists for the 2025 Oregon Book Award!
E. M. Lewis’ THE FRANKENSTEIN PROJECT was a finalist for the Neukom Award from the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth.
DOROTHY’S DICTIONARY by E. M. Lewis comes to 21ten Theatre.
Opens November 22, 2024
Congratulations to E. M. Lewis for her Distinguished Alumni Award from Willamette University for Professional Achievement.
Congratulations to E. M. Lewis! The 1st Stage production of HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN, in Tysons, Virginia, was nominated for eight Helen Hayes Awards, including best production, ensemble, and director.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE FALLEN GIANT — a new opera by composer Evan Meier and librettist E. M. Lewis — has its professional world premiere at Opera Modesto in California this month, after its academic premiere at Portland State University in November/December.
