Mildred Inez Lewis
MILDRED INEZ LEWIS writes and directs for theater, film and the digital space. A Dramatists Guild member, she belongs to the Antaeus, Company of Angels, EST-Los Angeles and PlayGround-LA writing groups.
UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS: GHOSTS OF BLACKNESS with Harlem9/Lucille Lortel/National Black Theatre; $10 AND A TAMBOURINE with Antaeus; THE MUSEUM ANNEX, inspired by THE COLORED MUSEUM with Central Works (Berkeley, CA); WE DREAMED OURSELVES, Dragon Egg Productions (Oakland, CA); and DOWN HOME, Valdez Theatre Conference (Valdez, AK).
UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS: THE GIFT and /KOM’PLISIT/ with Broadway Play Publishing. ROOST FIRST, THEN FLY in Applause Books’ 2020 10-Minute play collection.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS: AITHIOPES IMAGINED with Antaeus. WE JUMP BROOM and ACKNOWLEDGE with PlayGround-LA.
FILM: Wrote and directed CAST ME! screened at 2019 Outfest and Outfest Fusion.
AWARDS: 2021 L.B. Williams award, New Circle Theater. 2018-9 PLAY LA (Humanitas).
EDUCATION: BA, music, Oberlin College. MFA in film/television and MA in African Area studies, UCLA.
