Lee Lewis | |
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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 53–54) Chicago,Illinois,USA |
Education | Columbia University,National Institute of Dramatic Art |
Awards | Helpmann Award |
Lee Lewis OAM (born 1970) is an Australian theatre director.
Lewis was born in 1970 in Chicago,Illinois,to an English father and Anglo-Zimbabwean mother. Her family lived in Zimbabwe for six years before emigrating to Australia in 1977. [1]
Lewis trained as an actor at Columbia University in New York. [2] Returning to Australia,she completed a Masters of Directing at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 2005. [3] [4]
In 2006 she 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]
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