Wayne Lemon
Wayne Lemon is an American playwright and screenwriter.
Career
Wayne Lemon is an American playwright whose work has been performed at South Coast Repertory, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Hartford Stage and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, among others.
Lemon's work has been featured in Hartford Stage's Brand:NEW Fall Festival of Plays, Horizon Theatre Company's New South Playworks, New Haarlem Arts Theatre's Unheard Voices for the American Theater and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers' Project.
Lemon has served as playwright in residence at theaters across America. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, The University of Texas, Washington University, Texas Tech University and Marquette University.
Lemon currently writes for the motion picture industry in Los Angeles. Recent projects include Master Thieves and The Presidents Club for SONY Pictures Entertainment and The Havana Affair for Appian Way and Material Pictures.
Jesus Hates Me is a character study, a comedy, a dramatic statement, a fleeting discourse on religion, an exploration of belief, a brief treatise on predestination versus self-determination and a whole lot of fun. It is alive as few plays are.--Centerstage
Lemon has hit upon a genre that — as irreverent and at times as profane as rap, yet filled with pertinent issues and rebellious politics.--Variety
In its West Coast premiere, [this] irreverent dramedy about the search for meaning may offend as often as it convulses, but it's certainly vivid. Lemon's narrative is both wildly inappropriate and keenly idiomatic. There's a compassionate point beneath its quirky corrosion.--Los Angeles Times
Lemon is a keen observer of human flaws and frailties, skillfully merging dozens of minute details to form a seriocomic mosaic. Up close, much of it is pointedly funny. From a distance, it's sickly-sad.--Orange County Register
An exquisite comedy, featuring black lines of intriguing thought, with some of the funniest dialogue ever heard. Lemon has done an amazing piece of work. --Back Stage
This irreverent take on the search for meaning is hilarious, poignant, heartfelt, and a deeply vivid portrait of lives teetering on the edge of something big.--KPBS Arts
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