Caleb Lewis
Caleb studied playwriting at Flinders University, later being mentored by Nick Enright. In 2004 Songs for the Deaf opened at the Adelaide Fringe and Lewis began a two-year residency with Griffin Theatre Company culminating in the 2005 premiere of Nailed. The Sea Bride, won the 2006 Inscription Emerging Playwright Award earning a two-week workshop with playwright Edward Albee. In 2007 Dogfall opened in Adelaide to critical acclaim. In 2008 Songs for the Deaf toured to Hong Kong; later that year Caleb was awarded an AWGIE for Otzi – the story of the Iceman. His play, Men, Love and the Monkeyboy was shortlisted for the Griffin Award and is the winner of the 2008 Mitch Matthews award.
In 2009 Death in Bowengabbie, was nominated best production at the Adelaide Fringe and won the judge’s commendation for best new writing. The play opened in Sydney last March. In November a second production was mounted by Merigong Theatre Co in Wollongong. Current projects include a steampunk/Chekhov mashup for DropBear Theatre Co and commissions for Bell Shakespeare, Onward Productions and State Theatre Company South Australia.
This year, Ghost Sharks, Lewis’s collaboration with the Mob of 3 (awarded a 2010 Moosehead award) tours to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and TRS present Betsy at Sydney’s Old Fitzroy Hotel. His play Rust and Bone was presented in entirety at the highly prestigious Australian National Playwright’s Conference in Sydney this March. Caleb was recently announced the inaugural winner of the Richard Burton Award, for his historical play, Clinchfield. He is pretty chuffed.