Sam LewiS puppetry artist
Sam LewiS puppetry artist
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UPCOMING PERFORMANCeS
UPCOMING PERFORMANCeS
June 20, 2025, 7PM - Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers Showcase - Puppet Showplace Theater (Performing in Brett Swinney's piece) - Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre (820 Commonwealth Ave, Brookline, MA) Tickets
Press
Press
Samuel J. Lewis II’s puppetry explores slippery narratives of American Black history.
by Irene Hsiao
February 9, 2023
Selected work
Selected work
Praiseworthy - An Intelligent and Prompt Negro, A Railroad Disaster Averted
@Links Hall
2025 - Nasty, Brutish, and Short (Almost) 15th Anniversary Show
music by: Hunter Diamond
crankie puppet building and art direction by: Grace Needlman
He Worked Hard, The Story of James "Jim" Lewis
@Green Line Performing Arts Center
D-Composed 5th Anniversary Event on 12/12/2022
puppetry by: Sam Lewis & Noah and Parker Maxen-Lewis
words: Sam Lewis
music by: D-Composed
additional music by: Hunter Diamond
composed by: Ahmed Al Abaca
Where I'm From
@Links Hall
2022 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival - Nasty, Brutish, and Short
w/ Noah Maxen-Lewis, and Parker Maxen-Lewis
music by: Steve Gaede
lyrics by: Sam Lewis
In a Deep Dark Wood There Lived an Ogre
Created by K*F*C Puppet Partners
Narration by Sam Lewis
Puppet Wonder Wagon
2021 Pivot Arts Festival
Videography: Jonathan Woods
Performers: Hunter Diamond, Cristal Sabbagh, Myles Wakefield J, Felix Mayes, Grace Needlman, Scott Merchant, Sam Lewis
Imagine Working the Land
w/ Noah and Parker Maxen-Lewis
music by: Sam Lewis
Ancestral Kinetics
@Elastic Arts
w/ Noah and Parker Maxen-Lewis
music written and performed by: Dr. Adam Zanolini
Emancipation Blues
w/ Noah and Parker Maxen-Lewis
music written and performed by: Marvin Tate,
and Steve Gaede
A Puppet Day in America
2019 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
@Links Hall
w/ Marvin Tate, Time Brickey, Jennifer Ligaya,
and Aquil Charlton (AQ)
music by: Aquil Charlton, and Various artists
Big Head Meets Jus Hambone
Green Line Puppet Slam
@Green Line Performing Arts Center
w/ Brett Swinney
Jus Hambone vs. AQ Freestyle Battle
w/ Aquil Charlton
Snowball Fight
w/ Sawyer Maxen-Lewis
music written and performed by: Sam Lewis
Jus n' Time
Live @Ragdale Foundation
w/ Time Brickey
music written and performed by: James Sanders
Song of Solomon - A Cosmic Love Opera (excerpt)
by Angel Bat Dawid
@Co-Prosperity Sphere
music written and performed by: N.W. Long
Jus Wurks It
@Ragdale Foundation
music created by: Jerome Derradji
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