Mike Lew

Mike is unspeakably grateful to the Alliance/Kendeda for this opportunity. Mike’s plays include Bike America (Juilliard and Lark workshops, NYC; Kennedy Center/NNPN workshop, DC; Playwrights Foundation workshop, SF); microcrisis (Ma-Yi, NYC; InterAct, Philly; Next Act, Milwaukee); Stockton (AracaWorks and EST workshops, NYC); and People’s Park (Victory Gardens Ignition Festival, Chicago). His shorts include Tenure (24-Hour Plays on Broadway), In Paris You Will Find Many Baguettes but Only One True Love (Humana Festival, KY; InspiraTO Festival winner, Toronto), Roanoke (Humana Festival), and Moustache Guys (Second Generation, NYC). He is a resident writer for Blue Man Group and winner of the Alliance/Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, Heideman Award, Sam French Festival, and Battle of the Bards. Along with his wife, Rehana Lew Mirza, he is co-director of the Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab, the largest collective of Asian-American playwrights in the country. Training: Juilliard (2013), Yale (2003).