Rehana Lew Mirza’s plays include: Hatefuck (WP/Colt Coeur; upcoming at Roundhouse); A People’s Guide to History in the Time of Here and Now (Primary Stages commission; AADA workshop); Soldier X (Ma-Yi; Brooklyn College); and Barriers (Desipina, Asian American Theater Company). With her husband Mike Lew she shares a Mellon Foundation National Playwright residency administered in partnership with Howlround at Ma-Yi Theater, and a commission at La Jolla Playhouse for The Colonialism Project after previously being their 2018 artists-in-residence. They’ve co-written the book, in partnership with Sam Willmott, to the musical Bhangin’ It (2019 Richard Rodgers Award; upcoming productions at La Jolla Playhouse and McCarter Theater; previously developed at The Orchard Project, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and their 3R program, Goodspeed, and Project Springboard). Additional honors: 2019 NYFA Fellow, Storyworks/HuffPost commission; Colt Coeur company member, HBO Access Fellow, Lilly Award, and a TCG/New Georges Fellowship. MFA: Columbia University; BFA: NYU Tisch.