Jonathan Lewis

Jonathan Lewis has worked extensively as an actor, writer and director for over 30 years, and has won a number of awards for his work. His first play was Our Boys, which he also directed at The Soho Theatre, Derby Playhouse and at The Donmar Warehouse. He won The Writers’ Guild Award for Best New Fringe Play, TAPS new Television Writer Of The Year, and was nominated for The Lloyds Bank Playwright Of The Year. This was revived in a major West End production in the autumn of 2012, directed by David Grindley. It was also nominated for a number of awards, including Best Revival and Best Acting Ensemble at The Evening Standard Awards as well as The What’s On Stage Awards.

He also wrote and directed A Comedy Of Arias at The Pleasance, Edinburgh and as part of A Pick Of The Fringe season at The New Ambassadors Theatre in London’s West End, as well as his own play All Mouth at The Menier Chocolate Factory. He wrote and directed Pitch Perfect at Soho Theatre, and again at Tristan Bates, and a further production at The Tabard, as well as writing and performing in My First Trainers, also at The Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden.

He has freely adapted a German play, Rock And A Hard Place, which he directed at The Tristan Bates Theatre and at the 2014 Brighton Fringe Festival, and he has co-written I Found My Horn, which has appeared in The West End and Hampstead Theatre and at theatres and festivals up and down the country and also in Copehagen, Lisbon, Abu Dhabi, New York, LA and at The Laguna Beach Playhouse. He has also directed The Club by David Williamson; Chris England’s hit Breakfast with Johnny Wilkinson, also at The Menier Chocolate Factory and Edinburgh Fringe; and Chris England’s new comedy Twitstorm at The Park Theatre in the summer of 2017. He has also written extensively for television.

He is currently working on a trilogy for the theatre entitled Education, Education, Education. The first part, called A Level Playing Field, premiered at The Jermyn Street Theatre in April 2015. The second part, The Be All and End All, will appear at York Theatre Royal and Colchester Mercury Theatre in May 2018.

And in January 2018, rehearsals start on a play he has written for military veterans with PTSD called Soldier On. This will premiere in February at the Northcott in Exeter at the start of a tour which will take the play to the Playground Theatre in London and Gravesend, York Theatre Royal and The North Wall Arts Centre in Oxford.