Eric Ayala is an award winning, multi-faceted and gifted writer, director, author, actor, singer, and producer. He's been published in 3 genres – all 3 pseudonyms he uses are variations of his full name.

Writing in the genre of Inspirational fiction and using the penname E.L. Ayala his first book Restoration was published in 1997. Then in 1998 he wrote, directed and produced the stage play Will You Be Made Whole which debuted on stage at the 14th Street Playhouse. The play was followed later that year with what was to become the first in the wholeness series. The book Will You Be Made Whole was followed by the success of the sequel Alabaster Box…Two Women One Struggle, and then …if i should die before i wake. Will You Be Made Whole [the play] continued to perform well over the next 3 years.

* In 2003 his contemporary musical The Women debuted and sold out 2 performances at the Morton Theatre in Athens, Georgia.

In 2007 Eric entered a contest for women’s fiction and the pseudonym Erica Lewis was birth – he won the contest! From that victory he garnered a national book deal with Urban Soul and Kensington Publishing and penned the titles Arlington Heights [2008] and Darkness In The Mirror [2009].

In 2010 Eric facilitated a writing workshop and met a school teacher who introduced him to the next phase of his career as a screenwriter. He was initially hired to write and direct the phenomenal Black History Month production of Strange Fruit for Hopewell Christian Academy, but while working on the play he met Dr. William L. Sheals, who was also cast as the lead in Strange Fruit. Dr. Sheals hired Eric to write the screenplay for Sunday Morning Rapture, and brought him on as an Assistant Director. The movie Sunday Morning Rapture made its acclaimed premiere at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA in November 2011. In 2013 the film placed 4th at the International Christian Film Festival and won BEST Feature at the Capital City Black Film Festival.

Subsequently, in the early part of 2011, under the pseudonym Lewis Ericson, the “urban street lit” title OUTCAST was contracted by the imprint Urban Renaissance and Kensington Publishing and the book was released nationally in December 2012. The sequel, Avenging Alex, followed in the 2013-2014 calendar year. His provocative novel The Mansion was also published under this pseudonym. In March 2015, under the penname Lewis Ericson, a new deal was inked with Page Publishing. Retribution is set for release in the fall of 2016.

In the summer of 2015 he wrote the screenplay adapted from his novel …if I should die before I wake. Thus far the screenplay has been honored by the Los Angeles Big Pride Film Festival. In 2016 the trailer has won in its category at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards, Creation International Film Festival, IndieFest Film Awards, Filmmakers Global, Accolade Global and ITSLA Film Festivals.

Eric is also an accomplished singer. His stage and musical credits include The Music Man, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Show Boat, Dreamgirls, and the operas Porgy and Bess, Pacific Overtures, Lucia Di Lammermoor, Don Giovanni, and Il Trovatore.

In addition to all of that he still finds the time to work with other authors and playwrights on various projects. He’s directed two stage plays for Toombstone Productions; Hallways and Lemons, and has just finished collaboration on his very latest novel, The Letter.