A monologue from American Lullaby by Cassandra Lewis has been published in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues & Scenes 2012 by Smith & Kraus.  The anthology also includes work by David Lindsay-Abaire, Stephen Adly Guirgis, José Rivera, Katori Hall, and Adam Rapp. American Lullaby made its world premiere at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre. Play Synopsis: When […]

Cassandra Lewis has been accepted to the 2013 Yale Writers’ Conference.  She has been invited to join the playwriting workshop led by the great Donald Margulies. The Conference is in June at Yale University.

Smith & Kraus just released The Best Ten-Minute Plays, 2011, which includes Waiting for a Fix by Cassandra Lewis.  The play recently made its world premiere at The American Globe Theatre in New York City.

Depression: A Comedy by Cassandra Lewis was produced by Three Roses Players in Los Angeles on October 25, 26, 27, & 30 and won the most votes as the audience’s favorite play.

Cassandra Lewis was invited to attend The 2011 Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive. While it was an honor to be accepted to this world renowned playwriting program, she was unable to attend due to obligations that enable her to pay the bills.  She hopes to be accepted again in the future.

Depression: A Comedy, a one-act play by Cassandra Lewis, is being produced in the International Play Festival on April 2 & 8 by The Knutsford Little Theatre in Cheshire, England! The play will also be produced later this spring by Three Rose Players in Los Angeles. In Depression: A Comedy Trevor overcomes his dejected desires when […]

American Lullaby, a new full-length play by Cassandra Lewis, will be presented in Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Winterfest 2011 and produced by Bastille Arts. American Lullaby is set in an old southern plantation a few days before Christmas in present time.  Buddy, a recently retired white Congressman is recovering from a heart attack.  His daughter, Faith, is taking […]

The Barrow Group presented a staged reading of Migrations, a play by Cassandra Lewis. Becca Worthington directed and actors from The Barrow Group School brought the play to life: Izze Gibson, Danny Borbon, Michelle Finn, Richard Torres, Alex Coehlo, Bonnie White, and Alison Wonderland.  The Barrow Group was founded on Barrow Street in 1986, but […]

Two Women On The Shore by Cassandra Lewis has been published in Issue 23 of The Dirty Goat. The play was recently produced at The Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska.  Inspired by the Edvard Munch woodcut prints of the same title, Two Women On The Shore is about a young woman’s struggle for freedom […]

The Elevator Mystique, a short play by Cassandra Lewis was published in Issue 4 of Weave magazine. Four characters from real life: Betty Friedan, Darwin’s beloved tortoise Harriet, renowned sexologist Dr. Money, and infamous kidnapper Joe Amsler, examine the purgatorial afterlife, which is set in a stuck elevator overlooking a shopping mall. The play received […]