101 Stage Adaptations

4 - TEENAGE DICK by Mike Lew (Ep. 10)

November 10, 2022 Mike Lew Episode 10
101 Stage Adaptations
4 - TEENAGE DICK by Mike Lew (Ep. 10)
Show Notes

TEENAGE DICK by Mike Lew has been a favorite play of Melissa's ever since she swiped it from her roommate's Dramatist Play Service subscription box. Luckily, it's also an adaptation, so that enabled her to invite Mike to come on the show and discuss this excellent and provocatively-titled play and also to indulge in a moderate amount of fangirling. 

In this episode, we discuss:

  • How this play fell into Mike's lap and then he sat on it for a year before writing
  • How Mike collaborated with actors with disabilities during the writing process 
  • Mike's philosophy on adaptations
  •  Why he's a self-proclaimed "Shakespeare skeptic"

And more!


Resources Mentioned

Read Teenage Dick
Dramatists Play Service
DPS's play subscription box - now known as the Broadway Book Club
Director Brian Balcom
Theater Wit
TEENAGE DICK on the CBS Evening News (The news source was mis-credited in the episode. We regret the error.)


About Our Guest

Mike Lew’s plays include tiny father; Teenage Dick; Tiger Style!; Bike America; and microcrisis. He and Rehana Lew Mirza are Mellon Foundation Playwrights in Residence at Ma-Yi where they cowrote The Colonialism Trilogy and the book to Bhangin’ It with composer/lyricist Sam Willmott. Mike is a Dramatists Guild Council member, Tony voter, and New Dramatists resident. His list of honors includes Guggenheim, Lark Venturous and NYFA fellowships and the Kleban, PEN, Lanford Wilson, Helen Merrill, Weissberger, Heideman, and Kendeda awards.


Connect with Our Guest

www.mikelew.com
Twitter: @MikeLew4


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