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Lee Lewis OAM (born 1970) is an Australian theatre director.
Lee Lewis | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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]
- 2016: Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play for Griffin's production of The Bleeding Tree[10]
- 2024: Honorary Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours, for service to the performing arts as a theatre director.[11]
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