Apple Season
by E.M. Lewis
August 29th - September 21st, 2025
Thursday - Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
Lissie and her brother, Roger, fled their family farm when they were both still in high school. They've come back for their father's funeral. When Billy -- who they both knew when they were kids -- offers to buy the farm, it sets all three of them tumbling down a rabbit hole of memory and grief, as they try to let go of a tangled past that refuses to let go of them.
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From local playwright E.M. Lewis, writer of Dorothy's Dictionary, comes the second play in our BareBones partnership.
CAST & CREW
Paulina Jaeger-Rosete | Lissie
Jonathan Hernandez | Roger
Michael Heidingsfelder | Billy
Francisco Gargia | Director
E.M Lewis | Playwright
Ava Schmidt | Stage Manager
Sophina Flores | Lighting Designer
Daye Thomas | Sound Designer
Olivia Vavroch | Costumer, Props, and Set Design
Kristen Mun-Van Noy | Intimacy Coordinator
Chris Brantely | Producer
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E.M. Lewis
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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
E. M. (Ellen Margaret) Lewis is an award-winning playwright, teacher, and opera librettist. Her work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French. She received the Steinberg Award for How the Light Gets In and Song of Extinction and the Primus Prize for Headsfrom the American Theater Critics Association, the Ted Schmitt Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a playwriting fellowship from the New Jersey State Arts Commission, the 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship in Drama, and an Edgerton Award for Magellanica.
She is currently enjoying a six-year National Playwright Residency at Artists Repertory Theater, provided by the Mellon Foundation. Her opera Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant, written with composer Evan Meier, premiered at Opera Modesto in January 2024. Lewis teaches in Lesley University’s low-residency MFA Program. She lives on her family’s farm in Oregon.
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APPLE SEASON was first produced as a National New Play Network
Rolling World Premiere by New Jersey Repertory Theatre, NJ, Riverside
Theatre, IA and Moving Arts, CA. For more information please visit www.nnpn.org.
Developed in part with Theatre 33 in Oregon and the Women Playwrights
Initiative at Ivoryton Playhouse in Connecticut in March 2017.