GII Symposium 2026

E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright and opera librettist whose work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French. She received the Steinberg Award for How the Light Gets In and Song of Extinction and the Primus Prize for Heads from the American Theater Critics Association, the Ted Schmitt Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, playwriting fellowships from New Jersey and Oregon arts commissions, and an Edgerton Award for Magellanica.  Other plays include: The Frankenstein Project, Strange Birds, Apple Season, The Gun Show, True Story, Apple Hunters! and Dorothy's Dictionary.  Lewis has spent the last six years as playwright-in-residence at Artists Repertory Theater through the Mellon Foundation’s National Playwright Residency Program.  She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, who lives on her family’s farm in the Willamette Valley in Oregon.