Paul Lewis is a Seattle-based composer and playwright whose staged work includes musicals, full-length and one-act plays, a children’s opera, and a choral and orchestral requiem. Recent projects include his musical Lost in the Hills (Theatre 33); a musical adaptation of Margaret Wise Brown’s iconic 1942 book The Runaway Bunny (Boston Children’s Theatre and SecondStory Repertory); 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); Caps for Sale, A Musical (Boston Children’s Theatre); Jill Trent Science Sleuth (Cayuga Community 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. Other pieces for young audiences include a musical adaptation of Barbara O’Connor’s NY Times bestselling novel WISH, winner of the 2023 AATE Distinguished Play award for an adaptation; The Bremen Town Black Cat Band (Valley Center Stage); and The Lion in the Snow Globe (staged reading at The Sauk); Paul’s play The Names has had developmental readings at Equity Library Theatre Chicago, Atlantic Stage, FUSION, and The Field, and will be workshopped and fully staged at Theatre 33 in August 2023. 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. He is a member of BMI and The Dramatists Guild of America.
Paul may be contacted at writing.musicals@gmail.com. Scripts and script samples may be found at newplayexchange.org by searching for the writer's name.