William W. Lewis
Scholar /Educator / Performance Maker
Books
Experiential Spectatorship: Immersion, Participation, and Play in Times of Deep Mediatization. (Routledge: 2025)
Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists. (Routledge: 2023). Co-Edited with Sean Bartley.
Winner of the 2024 Edited Works Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Book Chapters
“Collaborative Development Workshop: Approaching Conceptualization through Audience Affordances and Experiential Trajectories.” In Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists, edited by William W. Lewis and Sean Bartley, 98-104. (Routledge: 2023).
“Experiential Theatres: An Introduction.” In Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists, edited by William W. Lewis and Sean Bartley, 1-22. (Routledge: 2023). With Sean Bartley.
“Frameworks for Making and Performing in Experiential Performance.” In Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists, edited by William W. Lewis and Sean Bartley, 25-34. (Routledge: 2023). With Valerie Pye.
“Experiential Theatres and The Value of Rethinking Theatre Education: A Conversation with Performers and Interactive Theatre Makers on Developing Methods for Collaborative Experience Making.” In Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists, edited by William W. Lewis and Sean Bartley, 64-73.(Routledge: 2023). With Valerie Pye.
“An Afterword: Experience and Theatre Education.” In Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists, edited by William W. Lewis and Sean Bartley, 260-264. (Routledge: 2023). With Sean Bartley.
“A Design Roundtable: The Creative Process of Experience.” In Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists, edited by William W. Lewis and Sean Bartley, 223-233. (Routledge: 2023). With Bruce Bergner and Rich Dionne.
“Performativity 3.0: Data Role-Play and Hacking Post-Digital Subjectivities” in Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance: Precarious Intermedial Identities, eds. Liam Jarvis and Karen Savage (Bloomsbury Methuen: 2021).
“Approaches to ‘Audience Centered’ Performance: Designing Interaction for the iGeneration” in New Directions in Teaching Theatre Arts, eds. Anne Fliotsos and Gail Medford (New York: Palgrave: 2018).
Articles
“(Re)Imagining the Polis: Audience Participation as Postdramatic Discourse,” Theatre Survey 66, no.1: 50-73
“Resisting Algorithmic Determination: Facing the Political ‘Other’ in Blast Theory’s Operation Black Antler,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 37, no. 2 (2023): 49-82.
“A Game of Telephone: Interdisciplinary Experience Making for Interactive Audiences,” Conference Proceedings of The Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering, (2023): 21-32.
“Introduction: Reterritorializing Digital Performance from South to North,” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 15, no 3. (2019): 243-248. With Sonali Pahwa.
Reviews
Review of Viola’s Room by Daisy Johnson, Theatre Journal 77, no. 2: 248-250.
Review of Urban Sensographies, ed. Nicolas Whybrow, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 19, no. 3. (2023).