LISA LEWIS
WRITER
"Competing drives and complicated ethics fuse in Lisa Lewis’s sexy and snarled SCHOOLED."
It's about what happens outside the classroom
SCHOOLED is a fiercely funny and gripping new play about privilege, ambition, and the lengths we’ll go to succeed. Two film students vie for a competitive grant from their roguish professor in a taut threesome that tests their romantic relationship and their ethics. A biting drama with surprising humor, SCHOOLED is an examination of the lies we tell ourselves, and the truths we refuse to believe.
The cast of SCHOOLED: Quentin Maré, Lilli Stein, Stephen Friedrich. Photo by Darren Cox.
Peter Friedman, Phoebe Strole, James Kautz, Mara Davi
Directed by Oliver Butler at New Ohio Theatre
ABOUT LISA
Called “sexy & snarled” by The New York Times, “wised-up & whip-smart” by Time Out New York, and “wildly talented” by HuffPost, Lisa Lewis is a New York–based playwright whose work blends dark comedy, emotional precision, and a sharp eye for complicated people.
Her play SCHOOLED played a sold-out run at the New York International Fringe Festival, where it was named a four-star Critics’ Pick by Time Out New York and received the Fringe Overall Excellence Award for Playwriting before returning as part of the Fringe Encore Series at Soho Playhouse. The play was subsequently published in Applause’s The Best Plays From American Theatre Festivals. Her play THE ONE/FIFTH was an official selection of Soho Playhouse’s 2024 Lighthouse Series. Her work has also been developed and presented by Naked Angels, The 24 Hour Plays, The New Ohio Theatre, Davenport Theatricals, and New Helvetia Theatre’s Sacramento New Works Festival, where she was an artist in residence.
Lisa’s television pilots have been developed with Trudie Styler’s Maven Pictures and Liev Schreiber’s Illuminated Content.
Alongside her writing, Lisa has built a career as an advertising creative director, directing commercials and content for Broadway. Her recent work includes George Clooney’s GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, John Lithgow’s GIANT, and the upcoming OTHER DESERT CITIES, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Allison Janney. She also wrote and directed a documentary series following Alicia Keys on her journey to Broadway with HELL’S KITCHEN, and has directed Broadway campaigns featuring Jessica Chastain, Lea Michele, Sting, Tom Hanks, Spike Lee, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke, Paul Dano, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Lisa was also a longtime story analyst for New Line Cinema and Tribeca Films.
The Housewarming
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THIS SHOULD END WELL
A wife asks her brother for his sperm — and nothing is ever the same.
When Jess asks her twin brother to be the sperm donor for her and her wife’s future baby, the offer cracks open a vault of buried secrets, rivalries, and impossible expectations. What begins as a modern act of love detonates into a brutal and funny reckoning with how we repeat and reinvent family — and try, against all odds, to begin again. THIS SHOULD END WELL shatters the line between identity and inheritance, the families we make—and the ones that make us.
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