Zoe Lewis
Playwright
About
Zoe Lewis is a ghostwriter, journalist and playwright specialising in comedy and popular culture. She has ghostwritten several high-profile autobiographies and guest-edited The Big Issue and worked as feature-writer for the Guardian, The Times and the Daily Mail. Lewis won the North-West Young Playwrights award in 1986 and 1987. She has recently had articles published in The Conversation regarding her work with low-opportunity young filmmakers.
Zoe Lewis has been involved in work with young adults in secure units in Hampshire since 2021. She runs schemes promoting how creative skills can empower young people to find their voice, both within the secure environment and the Criminal Justice System and after release. She has been mentoring students in creative writing and journalism since her position running creative writing at Keeping Kids Company charity in 2007.
Before embarking on a career in creative writing and journalism, Lewis worked as a script editor for Lord Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group for theatre, working with writers such as Jonathan Harvey on the musical Closer to Heaven (1999). Lewis lives in Southampton and is currently researching a new project on the lack of arts provision in mainstream schools.