24th Annual New American Play Festival

Playwright of LIGHTBREAD

EUGENE LEE began working as an actor in the early 1970s and continues to appear on stage, in movies and on television. His acting credits include works at stages such as The Negro Ensemble Company of New York, True Colors in Atlanta, the Huntington Theater in Boston, Seattle Rep, Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Theatre, Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and Crossroads Theatre in New Jersey.

His writing credits include episodes of Homicide: “Life on the Streets” (Emmy nominated), “Walker, Texas Ranger”, “Michael Hayes”, “The Journey of Allen Strange”, “The Turks”, and the Morgan Freeman-produced television movie, “Port Chicago”. His own characters come to life through his plays, including, East Texas Hot Links, which has been produced on stages from Los Angeles to New York and London’s Royal Court Theatre and is published by Samuel French play publishers. His other plays include Fear Itself, Somebody Called: A Tale of Two Preachers, Killingsworth, Lyin’ Ass and the musical, Twist.

Most recently seen on Broadway in “American Son” with Kerry Washington and Stephen Pasquale and Jeremy Jordan in the fall of 2018 and in the Emmy-nominated film adaptation of that play for Netflix and as General Mears in Showtime’s “Homeland” eighth season. Lee is Artist in Residence and Artistic Director of the New American Playwright's Festival (formerly the Black and Latino Playwright’s Celebration). at Texas State University. 

Playwright of Smoking Mirrors

Adonis Anderson is a trained actor under Atlantic Acting School in New York City. He has on-stage credits which include: Kitch, Passover, Ground Floor Theatre, and Barry, Falling Down the Mountain of Great Storms, Broad Theatre, both based in Austin, Texas. He found the pen at 21; since then, he hasn’t been able to let it go.