Paul Lewis is a Seattle-based composer and playwright whose staged work includes musicals, plays and a choral and orchestral requiem. Recent projects include The Names (Theatre 33, Salem), Lost in the Hills, A Musical (Theatre 33); musical adaptations of the two iconic children’s books — The Runaway Bunny and Caps for Sale — both of which premiered at Boston Children’s Theatre; The Crossing, A Musical (Theater Schmeater and Jewel Box Theatre), winner of a Seattle Times Footlights Award for Promising New Work, and nominated by Seattle Theater Writers for outstanding musical composition; The Bright Days of Our Youth (Bainbridge Performing Arts podcast); Jill Trent Science Sleuth (Cayuga College); Oblivion (Driftwood); and The Hours of Life, A Musical (Theatre22). His musical underscoring for The Pride (Theatre22) picked up an additional music nomination from Seattle Theater Writers. His adaptation of Barbara O’Connor’s NY Times bestselling middle-grade novel WISH, won the 2023 AATE Distinguished Play award. Paul’s one-act plays have been staged at play festivals across the country and in Canada, Mexico and the UK, winning Best of Festival awards in a number of these; and they have been published in Best Ten-Minute Play and Best Stage Monologue anthologies. Paul is a member of BMI and The Dramatists Guild of America.
