Caleb Lewis

Caleb Lewis is an Australian playwright and game designer, born on 16 April 1978. He is known for his play Dogfall, first produced in 2007 in Adelaide, South Australia.

Early life and education Lewis' father was a diver, whose job at one time was to retrieve bodies from the Yarra River in Melbourne. He later worked on an oil rig near Dubai, where Lewis visited him when he was 22. earning a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Hons) in 2001. After this he was mentored by Australian dramatist Nick Enright.

After receiving funding from the Australia Council's theatre and literature boards, his play The Sea Bride won the Theatrelab Emerging Playwright Award, earning a two-week workshop with playwright Edward Albee.

His play Dogfall opened in Adelaide at the Bakehouse Theatre to good reviews in November 2007, and Edward Albee called the play "wonderful".

In January 2008, Songs for the Deaf toured to Hong Kong. Men, Love and the Monkeyboy was short-listed for the 2007 Griffin Award and is the winner of the 2008 Mitch Matthews award. Men, Love and the Monkeyboy enjoyed successful seasons at the Darlinghurst Theatre and the Riverside Theatre Parramatta in 2008.

Rust and Bone, based on Craig Davidson's short story collection of the same name, premiered in Sydney in 2013, earning favourable reviews. Lewis began to work on creating immersive theatre pieces and game-based stories. His work If There Was a Colour Darker Than Black I’d Wear It won the 2013 Ruby Award for Innovation.

In 2016 he developed an app called The City, which allows the player to explore the lives of four homeless characters.

In 2019 he developed A Little History Play for the Batch Festival at Griffin Theatre Company. This was an interactive piece where the audience guided the action in the play, and their decisions then carried over to the play's next performance.

Cathedral, commissioned by the State Theatre Company of South Australia (STCSA)

Lewis moved to Queensland in May 2022. 2004: Nailed, shortlisted for the Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award 2007: Men, Love and the Monkeyboy, shortlisted for the Griffin Award 2009: Death in Bowengabbie nominated for best stage production at the 2009 Adelaide Fringe Festival, winning a commendation for best writing 2010: Inaugural winner of Sally Burton's Richard Burton Award for New Plays, for Clinchfield 2010: Lewis turned down the prestigious Philip Parsons Award, in protest against the lack of gender diversity in the company's 2010 season 2013: South Australian Ruby Award for Innovation, for If There Was a Colour Darker Than Black I’d Wear It.

Other roles

Lewis is a partner of the Hunter Institute for Mental Health. Destroyer of Worlds The Honey Bees Maggie Stone Nailed Dogfall Death in Bowengabbie, Rust and Bone *Aleksander and the Robot Maid In a Dark Dark Wood Clinchfield (winner of the inaugural Richard Burton Award for new plays)