Heads
by EM Lewis
Directed by Jessica Hutchinson
Part of the Alcyone Festival 2009A British Embassy worker, an American engineer, a network journalist and a freelance photographer are held captive in Iraq; as death draws close, each hostage must decide what he’ll do to survive.
Chicago Premiere
EM Lewis
EM Lewis is the winner of the 2009 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for Song of Extinction and the 2008 Francesca Primus Prize for an emerging woman theater artist for Heads. Her plays have been produced across the country. In 2007, LA Stage Magazine selected Lewis as one of twelve Los Angeles theater “artists to watch” as two of her full-length plays received their world premieres. Heads received its world premiere at the Blank Theater; the Los Angeles Times named it one of the top ten productions of 2007. Lewis is a member of Moving Arts Theatre Company, the Dramatists Guild, the International Centre for Women Playwrights and the Alliance of LA Playwrights. She lives in Santa Monica, California now – but she’s from Oregon.
For more info, visit her website: dramatistsguildweb.com/members/emlewis
Artists
Featuring: Kerry Cahill, Miguel Nunez, Arch Harmon, Patrick King
Director: Jessica Hutchinson
Lighting Designer: Ellen Moore
Sound Designer:Claudette Perez
Fight Director: Greg Poljacik
Production Stage Manager: Amanda Frechette
Season Three 08-09
Alcyone 09 Shows
The Alcyone Festival
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