SEAN
CHRISTOPHER LEWIS' plays include I WILL MAKE YOU ORPHANS
(Uno Festival of Solo Performance, Available Light 01 Festival, Galapagos
Art Space, Hyde Park Theatre, Center for Independent Artists, Riverside
Theatre, the National Performance Network Annual Conference, Theatre
Et Al, TIXE Arts Center), SHATTER THE SKY (Orlando Shakespeare Festival's
PLAYFEST, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Saratoga Shakespeare Company,
Working Group), HANDGRENADE HOLLY (ArtSpark New Media Festival, Hubris
Productions) and MILITANT LANGUAGE (National New Play Network's University
Workshop, Iowa New Play Festival, NYU HotInk Festival). He has also
developed work with the Ashtar Theatre of Palestine, CollisionWorks
Festival, Invictus TC and Intrepid. He is the Artistic Director of Working
Group,a touring company based in NY, and will serve as the 2007-2008
Emerging Playwright in Residence at InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia
and is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa's MFA Playwrights
Workshop.
MILITANT
LANGUAGE
"In
the midst of the Iraq War, two American soldiers find themselves alone
at a desert construction site covered in blood. At their feet is a grave-
make shift- with a boy from the local village in it. And outside the
site? Outside are soldiers abusing one another, babies being found in
the sand and a village that is beginning to call for its son. And, of
course, the secrets that are beginning to be let out... A play about
responsibility, communication and desire. A play about what happens
when those three things crumble.
