Lew Holton

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Lew Holton is an award-winning playwright, a retired teacher, an actor, a director, and a musician. His plays--including Hand Jive, The Rapid Decline of Billy Ray Bouton, Gauguin Painting Paradise, and The Early Miracle, among others--have appeared on stages in New York and throughout the wider theatre world. His plays have been published by Palmetto Play Service, Dramatics magazine, Southern Theatre magazine, and Playscripts, Inc. His play Portal won the SETC 2004 Charles M. Getchell New Play Award. His plays--Reese and Babe (the one about the clown and the chimpanzee) and Beer and Hypotheticals--have become play competition and festival standards. These three plays join Three Absurdly Easy Pieces as the latest additions to his short plays that take young actors to new places they have never been and that challenge both actors and directors to discover that their craft is perhaps best mastered via small victories on stage. He is also the author of The Community Theatre Actors' Bible: 10 Secrets to Better Acting for Untrained Actors. Mr. Holton is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.