Mike Lew's plays include Tiger Style!, Collin, Bike America (Alliance, Atlanta; Ma-Yi, NYC; Juilliard and Lark workshops, NYC; Kennedy Center/NNPN workshop, DC; Playwrights Foundation workshop, SF); microcrisis (Ma-Yi, NYC; InterAct, Philly; Next Act, Milwaukee); Stockton (AracaWorks and EST workshops, NYC); and People’s Park (Victory Gardens Ignition Festival, Chicago). His shorts include Tenure (24 Hour Plays on Broadway), In Paris You will Find Many Baguettes but Only One True Love (Humana Festival, KY; InspiraTO Festival winner, Toronto), Roanoke (Humana Festival), and Moustache Guys (Second Generation, NYC). He is a former resident writer for both Blue Man Group and Bon Appetit, and several of his short plays are published by Playscripts.

Mike's playwriting awards include the second annual Lanford Wilson Award (via the Dramatists Guild), the Helen Merrill Award, NYFA Fellowship, Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award, AracaWorks Graduate Playwriting Award, Heideman Award, Sam French Festival, and Battle of the Bards. He is co-director of the Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab, the largest collective of Asian-American playwrights in the country. Other residencies include Ensemble Studio Theatre, Youngblood (alum), Old Vic New Voices (alum), and TCG Young Leaders of Color. He is married to fellow playwright Rehana Lew Mirza, who he met in Ma-Yi Lab. Training: Juilliard (2013), Yale (2003). Check out his "Thoughts on the Theater" blog at mikelew.com.