Elizabeth Lewis

Elizabeth Lewis is a dramatist who has written a dozen radio plays, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her first radio play The Brief Chronicles of Annie Rose, produced by Alison Hindell and starring Tamsin Greig, drew on Elizabeth’s earlier career as a struggling actress. She was delighted the years of rejection provided material for her play, which earned multiple Critic’s Choice awards. Her work ranges from comedy, to magical realism and biodramas of powerful women such as the Magnum photographer Eve Arnold. Her work is largely produced by BBC Wales and draws on her Welsh heritage of which she is most proud. 

Elizabeth has also written extensively for theatre and her first play The Glass House was shortlisted for the International Playwriting Festival run by the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon. For TV, she was privileged to be mentored by Matthew Graham (Life on Mars) to whom she submitted her final draft between contractions with her first child — the ultimate deadline! Another earlier mentor was the playwright Bernard Kops who she worked for in his writing workshops for many years. 

Elizabeth has also worked as a journalist and copywriter, which taught her everything she knows about editing, use of semicolons and making every word count. She is currently writing a play for Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, inspired by the writer’s juvenilia. It promises a host of irreverent and headstrong characters whom Elizabeth hopes Jane would approve. She lives in a Hampshire village much like the one Austen favoured with her family and dog Scout.