Lee Lewis | |
|---|---|
| Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company | |
| In office January 2020 –March 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Sam Strong |
| Artistic Director of Griffin Theatre Company | |
| In office 2012 –January 2020 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1970 (age 54–55) Chicago,Illinois,USA |
| Education | Columbia University,National Institute of Dramatic Art |
| Awards | Helpmann Award |
Lee Lewis OAM (born 1970) is an Australian theatre director. She has been artistic director of the Griffin Theatre Company in Sydney and the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane,and is the winner of a Helpmann Award.
Lee Lewis was born in 1970 in Chicago,Illinois,United States,of an English father and Zimbabwean mother. Her family emigrated to Australia in 1977,after spending six years in Zimbabwe. [1]
Lewis moved to New York to work in theatre, [1] and trained as an actor at Columbia University [2] while working for a brokerage firm. [1]
Returning to Australia,she completed a Masters of Directing at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney in 2005. [3] [4]
In 2006 Lewis directed a play by New Zealand writer Matthew J. Saville about the Boer War entitled Kikia te Poa,which was performed at the Old Fitzroy Theatre in Sydney. [5] [6]
She was appointed artistic director of Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company in 2012. [7]
Lewis was appointed artistic director of the Queensland Theatre Company in 2019,succeeding Sam Strong who was her predecessor at Griffin as well. [8] She resigned from Queensland Theatre in March 2024. [9]
In July 2025,Creative Australia announced funding from the new Creative Futures Fund for the production of Suzie Miller's new play Strong Is the New Pretty,to be delivered by Brisbane Festival in partnership with Sydney Theatre Company and Trish Wadley Productions,directed by Lewis. [10] [11]