{"id":22768,"date":"2025-03-18T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=22768"},"modified":"2025-03-18T08:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:45:12","slug":"tonight-poet-actress-playwright-helena-d-lewis-performs-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/tonight-poet-actress-playwright-helena-d-lewis-performs-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight: Poet, Actress &amp; Playwright Helena D. Lewis Performs Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, guest artist Helena D. Lewis will perform a reading at<strong> 7 p.m. in the Kirby Hall Salon <\/strong>as part of the English Department&#8217;s Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series. The evening with Lewis will include a reading and Q&amp;A with the audience. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis is an award-winning actress, poet and playwright. Her one-person show, \u201cCall Me Crazy: Diary of A Mad Social Worker,\u201d featuring 25 characters and chronicling her work in the social service field, won the AUDELCO 2014 Best Solo-Performance Award, Best Short at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival in New York and was Festival Pick at the inaugural DC Black Theater Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis has performed at numerous universities and colleges across the country and has been featured in the award-winning series\u00a0<i>Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry<\/i>. In 2019, she received the EMART Theater Services award for her contributions to Black Theater and social work.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis earned her doctorate in social work from Rutgers University and is also a licensed clinical social worker, a licensed clinical alcohol drug counselor and a certified HIV\/AIDS health educator. She is currently the substance abuse treatment director for a 51-bed facility for women inmates.<\/p>\n<p>The final guest speaker in the series will be George Saunders on Tuesday, April 15; registration is required.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wilkes.edu\/dickson\">wilkes.edu\/dickson<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, guest artist Helena D. Lewis will perform a reading at 7 p.m. in the Kirby Hall Salon as part of the English Department&#8217;s Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series. The evening with Lewis will include a reading and Q&amp;A with the audience. The event is free and open to the public. Lewis is&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/tonight-poet-actress-playwright-helena-d-lewis-performs-reading\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tonight: Poet, Actress &amp; Playwright Helena D. Lewis Performs Reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22795,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22768\/revisions\/22795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}