Wayne Lemon
Wayne Lemon is an American playwright and screenwriter.
Career[]
Wayne Lemon is an American playwright and screenwriter whose work has been performed at South Coast Repertory, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Hartford Stage and The Denver Centre 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, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers' Project and the American National Theatre. He has served as playwright in residence at theaters across America.
Lemon currently writes for the motion picture industry in Los Angeles. Recent projects include Master Thieves (based on the book by Stephen Kurkjian) and The Presidents Club (based on the book by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy) for SONY Pictures Entertainment and The Havana Affair for Appian Way and Material Pictures.
Influences include playwright Sam Shepard and English novelist Graham Greene.
CRITICAL RESPONSE TO JESUS HATES ME:
Lemon has hit upon a genre as irreverent and at times as profane as rap, yet filled with pertinent issues and rebellious politics.--Variety
[This] irreverent dramedy about the search for meaning may offend as often as it convulses. 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 Regiser
Though Jesus Hates Me does have its occasional sweet moments, it’s the acidic ones that make it such a treat.--StageSceneLA
Jesus Hates Me questions faith by confronting social taboos, everything from racism to blasphemy, fraud to adultery, suicide to incest — all through a lens of dark humor.--San Diego Reader
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
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
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
Lemon's comic touch is razor sharp.--San Diego Union-Tribune
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