Lewis Hetherington
Lewis Hetherington is an award winning playwright and performance maker. His work is rooted in story and collaboration, and he is passionate about creating space for audiences and artists to imagine new ways to be in the world.
He is a founder of fieldwork performance, whose work includes QWERK: A festival of international queer plays, and Dear Green Place: a participatory project about the Climate Crisis in North East Glasgow. He is an Associate Artist with The PappyShow.
His work has travelled extensively across the world, from Singapore, to Saudi Arabia to Shetland.
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