Gravel Road

Arden Teresa Lewis – Writer - has worked as a playwright and director in NYC, and LA. Her first documentary film, Leveling Lincoln - A Civil Rights integration story - is currently streaming on the PBS APP and available through NETA and FILMS MEDIA GROUP. See www.levelinglincoln.com for more info.Her feature length screenplay, Gravel Road has been selected for 10 festivals. She earned 3 Semi-Finalist spots, 4 Finalist spots, a Second Place award and a First Place award. She directed to great reviews, Walking In Space plus The Night Forlorn, or Waitin' on Godsford by Steve Nevil, starring Jim Beaver of Supernatural, J. Downing of Viper, and Leslie Caveny of "Penelope" at theatrewest.org. She received the Lilian Nesburn Award from the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild for her play, Grandma Good and was a semi-finalist for the Jane Chambers Award with her play, Baby Dreams. Baby Dreams starred Veanne Cox and was published in Theatre Communications Guild Magazine. Her play, Little Rhonda, was produced at Theatre Geo and is part of the Audrey Skirbal Kenis Theatre Archives at the Los Angeles Central Library. Her work appears in two anthologies: Scenes For Women By Women and Even More Monologues For Women By Women – Tori Haring Smith/Heinemann Press. She holds a BA in theatre from UCLA and teaches kindergarten for LAUSD. She co-produced Jim Beaver’s acclaimed VERDIGRIS at TW in 2015. She has directed several of Garry Michael Kluger’s plays in WESTFEST 2014 and 2015 and has been chosen by Theatre West to direct their Writers in Residence Production and Best of Workshop productions. Her first short fiction films, "Breaking In"(screenwriter) "Monday's Child"(writer, director, producer) and "Trellis & Vine" (Writer, director, producer) have earned numerous Laurels from London to Long Beach and may be viewed on youtube at Arden Teresa Lewis.