Sean Christopher Lewis' plays and solo works have won the Kennedy Center's Rosa Parks Award, the National New Play Network's Smith Prize, the Barrymore Award, two Central Ohio Critic Circle Awards, the NEA Voices in Community Award, the Rick Graf Award from the Iowa Human Rights Commission, the NNPN Emerging Playwrights Residency and the William Inge Fellowship.

His solo pieces include KILLADELPHIA (Institut Del Teatre in Barcelona Spain; Interact Theatre, Baltimore Centerstage; Available Light Theatre; Touchstone Theatre; American Theater Company; Riverside Theatre; upcoming: Next Theatre in Chicago; Imagining America National Conference in Atlanta, GA), DOGS OF RWANDA (Legion Arts; Available Light Theatre; Horizon Theatre; Ojai Playwrights Conference; upcoming: Redfern Performing Arts Center), JUST KIDS (Sandglass Theatre; KO Festival of Performance; Available Light Theatre; Revolutions International Theatre Festival) and I WILL MAKE YOU ORPHANS (Uno Festival of Solo Performance; Hyde Park Theatre; Riverside Theatre).

His plays include MILITANT LANGUAGE (Know Theatre; Halcyon Theatre; Theater for the New City; Playpenn and HotInk!), THE APERTURE (Cleveland Public Theatre) and MANNING UP (Salt Lake Acting Company; Riverside Theatre; Actors Summit; upcoming: Creative Outlet).

He is the Artistic Director of Working Group Theatre where he creates Nationally Touring- Community Based Theatre including MAYBERRY (Hancher Auditorium; Bucksbaum Performing Arts Center; Iowa West Arts Center; City High School of Iowa City), FINDER'S DAUGHTER (National Czech Slovak Museum; Omaha Playhouse; Theatre of Western Springs), BROKEN CHORD (Hancher Auditorium), RUST (Actors Theatre of Grand Rapids; Legion Arts; published NY Times Magazine) and OUT OF BOUNDS (Hancher Auditorium; upcoming: Lied Center for Performing Arts). In Africa their work has included WE STOOD UP (Agahazo Shalom; Centre X Centre International Theatre Festival; KINA Festival) and in Spain it has included the RIOT BALLET (Institut Del Teatre).

He can be heard on NPR'S This American Life and his first film THESE HOPELESS SAVAGES is playing film festivals around the country.

He is represented by Leah Hamos at Abrams Artists.