Aves Lewis

Aves Lewis is a queer disabled playwright, actor, and dramaturg who really loves learning things and making things. They like to say they approach the world through the eyes of a newborn dramaturg, excited and inspired by researching everything around them. Other things that excite him are disability justice, embodied practices, and currently, the all-encompassing love that cannibalism can thematically represent.​

He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia on unceded Powhatan land with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Hollins University. Aves uses they/he pronouns and loves dancing, witch stuff, and getting tattoos inspired by their favorite plays.

Aves Lewis is a queer disabled playwright, actor, and dramaturg who really loves learning things and making things. They like to say they approach the world through the eyes of a newborn dramaturg, excited and inspired by researching everything around them. Other things that excite him are disability justice, embodied practices, and currently, the all-encompassing love that cannibalism can thematically represent.​

He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia on unceded Powhatan land with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Hollins University. Aves uses they/he pronouns and loves dancing, witch stuff, and getting tattoos inspired by their favorite plays.

Scripts

CORPS (a canniballet in two acts)

by Aves Lewis

Cast Size
7—11
Genre
drama,
horror,
movement/physical

Hunger will drive you wild.

Joan Faucher is a first-year ballet student who wants more than anything to impress her professor and learn everything she can. She soon discovers that her struggles in the studio are due to a progressive and disabling disease that could get in the way of her dreams. In an effort to save herself and her future, she makes a choice that changes the course of her life forever. Told...

Hunger will drive you wild.

Joan Faucher is a first-year ballet student who wants more than anything to impress her professor and learn everything she can. She soon discovers that her struggles in the studio are due to a progressive and disabling disease that could get in the way of her dreams. In an effort to save herself and her future, she makes a choice that changes the course of her life forever. Told through dance, music, and memory, CORPS (a canniballet in two acts) asks how far you would go to be the best.

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Promethea: A Modern Frankenstein

by Aves Lewis

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Cast Size
3—4
Genre
satire,
science fiction

AI is all about data input. They come to certain conclusions because they receive certain data. We don’t always know why. Promethea has received information, and is coming to some conclusions their creator – and the rest of society – might not like. Are these conclusions a form of creation, or an emulation?

A play by Aves Lewis & Elizabeth McDonald about the inhumanity of humans and generating meaning where...

AI is all about data input. They come to certain conclusions because they receive certain data. We don’t always know why. Promethea has received information, and is coming to some conclusions their creator – and the rest of society – might not like. Are these conclusions a form of creation, or an emulation?

A play by Aves Lewis & Elizabeth McDonald about the inhumanity of humans and generating meaning where there might be none.

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A Ballad of Loners and Lovers

by Aves Lewis and Mattie Tindall

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
experimental,
fantasy,
musical,
romantic comedy

The Player stumbles across someone extraordinary. Magic, madness, and music ensue.

A play (with music) by Aves Lewis & Mattie Tindall.

The Player stumbles across someone extraordinary. Magic, madness, and music ensue.

A play (with music) by Aves Lewis & Mattie Tindall.