The world premiere of "With" written by Carter Lewis, Playwright-In-Residence and Senior Lecturer with the Performing Arts Department, took place at the Perseverance Theatre, in Juneau, Alaska on November 22, 2019. "With" written is directed by Alicia Dhyana House. They play will run until December 15, 2019.
The holidays are over, a new year has begun, and Clifford and Minnie have reached the end of their days.
But how will they find the time to make a dignified exit when there are fitted sheets to be folded, screws to
be sorted, and a rat in the kitchen that keeps getting in the way? Both hilarious and heartbreaking, "With"
is the unusual love story of two souls impervious to time.
Click here to read a preview of the play from the "Juneau Empire."
"With" was selected in 2017 for the PlayPenn Annual New Play Development Conference. PlayPenn’s flagship program brings together theatre artists to celebrate the creation of new plays. Each year the conference playwrights are a celebrated collective of noteworthy theatre artists from both the United States and Australia. The playwrights develop their plays through in-depth workshops with directors, dramaturgs, designers, and professional actors from the local theatre community. Ample rehearsal time is interspersed with significant amounts of time for writing and for meetings - both formal and informal - between the writers and their creative teams. Each of the six plays is given two free public readings at Philadelphia’s Drake Theatre, one at the conference midpoint and the other at the end of the development period.
Carter Lewis teaches Introduction to Playwriting, Advanced Playwriting and Dramaturgy at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to that, he was Resident Dramaturg & Playwright-in-Residence for The Geva Theatre Center in New York. Carter was also co-founder and Resident Playwright for Upstart Stage in Berkeley, California. He is the winner of several national playwriting awards including: The Julie Harris - Playwriting Award, The State Theatre - Best New American Play, The Cincinnati Playhouse Rosenthal New Play Prize (’96 & 2001), New Dramatist Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award, Playwright’s Center Jerome Residency, The Kevin Kline Award for Best New Play of 2009 and he is a two time nominee for the American Theatre Critics Award. For his play, While We Were Bowling, Carter was the recipient of an NEA/TCG Residency Grant for Playwriting, and The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Award for Best New American Play.
