Arden Lewis
Director, Writer, Actor
Arden’s feature documentary film, Leveling Lincoln won a 2024 Daytime Emmy Award and is available on the PBS APP – distributed by NETA for one hour TV broadcast and streaming. www.levelinglincoln.com Her feature script, Gravel Road, was a 2022 semi-finalist at the Ojai Film Festival, Big Apple Film Fest, Manhattan Film Fest, Lady Filmmakers Fest, among others. Her new documentary film, The Last Reunion, is in development for a 2027 release. Her play, Cassatt, about the American —yet Parisian Impressionist artist, had a limited run with critical praise at Theatre West in Hollywood, June of 2026. Arden directed the critically acclaimed Walking in Space and Thorn in the Family Paw, at Theatre West in Hollywood. She directed The Night Forlorn, or Waitin’ on Godsford, – Best Production of a Play at the 2018 Valley Theatre Awards. She recently co-directed David Johnson’s Sally Spectre Off Off Broadway. She has acted at Primary Stages, The Bouerie Lane Theatre, Soho Playhouse, the Paper Mill Playhouse and the La Mirada Civic Theatre. 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. Her play, Little Rhonda, was produced at Theatre Geo and is in the Audrey Skirbal Kenis Theatre Archives at the Los Angeles Central Library. Published in two anthologies: Scenes For Women By Women and Even More Monologues For Women By Women. She holds a BA in theatre from UCLA. FB or IG-ATLewisFilms or YouTube – Lewis-Films – Website: www.ardenteresalewis.com
