The Tony Award-winning Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has selected plays by Ma-Yi Writers Lab co-director Mike Lew to be developed during the 2014 National Playwrights Conference.

The selected plays include Tiger Style! by Mike Lew; I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard by Halley Feiffer; Ugly Lies the Bone by Lindsey Ferrentino; The Imaginary Music Critic Who Doesn’t Exist by David Mitchell Robinson; Icarus Burns by Christopher Oscar Peña; and Bright Half Life by Tanya Barfield.

Tickets go on sale to the public June 11. by visiting www.theoneill.org. The National Playwrights Conference runs from Wednesday, July 2 through Saturday, July 19 at the O’Neill’s campus in Waterford, Connecticut.

Mike Lew is co-director of the Writers Lab along with his wife Rehana Lew Mirza. Mike’s plays include Bike America (Alliance, Atlanta; Juilliard, NYC), microcrisis (Ma-Yi, NYC; InterAct, Philadelphia; Next Act, Milwaukee); Stockton (Ensemble Studio Theatre workshop, NYC); People’s Park (Victory Gardens Ignition Festival, Chicago); Yit, Ngay (published in Plays and Playwrights 2006); Neanderthal Love (Sloan commission); Bury the Iron Horse; and Paper Gods. His short plays include Tenure (24 Hour Plays on Broadway), In Paris You Will Find Many Baguettes But only one True Love (Actors Theater of Louisville’s Humana Festival; InspiraTO Festival Winner, Toronto), Roanoke (Humana), and Moustache Guys (Second Generation, NYC). Several of his short plays are published by Playscripts.

Mike is winner of the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, the Heideman Award, and the Battle of the Bards. He is a resident writer for Blue Man Group. Other residencies include Ensemble Studio Theatre, Old Vic New Voices, At Play Productions, Youngblood (alum), and TCG Young Leaders of Color. Training: Juilliard (2013), Yale (2003).

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