Michele’s work is widely produced across the country and around the world. She received the Francesca Primus Prize for her play Inana and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Both Inana and Victoria Musica were finalists for the American Theater Critic’s Association/Steinberg New Play Award, which markedthe first time in the ACTA’s 33-year history that a playwright was nominated for two plays in one season.
Michele is the author of The Smell of the Kill (Broadway debut), String of Pearls (Outer Critics nomination), Map of Heaven, 22 Seconds, Mezzulah 1946, Backsliding in the Promised Land, and the original one-act musical A Thousand Words Come to Mind, which she co-wrote with composer Scott Davenport Richards.
She has received commissions from Transport Group, Signature Theater, Denver Center Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Geva Theatre, Premieres: Inner Voices, and Wind Dancer Productions. Her plays have been produced/developed by Primary Stages, Vineyard Theatre, Le Pepiniere (Paris), San Jose Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, New York Stage and Film, O’Neill National Music Theater Conference, Lark Play Development Center, Colorado New Play Summit, City Theater, New Harmony Project, PlayLabs, and Hedgebrook. Samuel French, Dramatic Publishing, and Smith and Kraus publish her work.
Michele iscurrently at work on the play It Goes Without Saying for the 2016 Keen Company Playwrights Lab, and two new musicals, The Proxy Marriage with composer Adam Gwon and The Break with Richards. She’s the creator of two TV series: “Clay”and “Giraffe”.
Michele is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She is a member of The Dramatist Guild and ASCAP, and serves on the board of trustees for the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts.Michele lives in New York and teaches students all over the country. www.michelelowe.net
Michele Lowe