Lewis Treston is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter.

Most recently he co-adapted with Wendy Mocke the smash hit play Pride and Prejudice at QT. The season received excellent reviews and was sold out. A new original play of his is also under commission at QT. Also at the end of last year his kooky Gold Coast dark comedy Hot Tub which won the 2016 Patrick White Playwright’s Award was produced at Belvoir Downstairs.

In 2023 his queer Jane Austen pastiche play Hubris & Humiliation premiered at Sydney Theatre Company to sell out performances and rave reviews. The play went on to win the Sydney Theatre Award for Best New Australian Work and New Play Award at the Australia Theatre Festival. In November of last year, his queer teen romcom IRL premiered at Brisbane’s La Boîte theatre. He is also currently developing a couple of screen projects.

His other produced plays include: an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband (La Boîte 2022), Follow Me Home (ATYP 2021), Meat Eaters (NIDA 2019) and Reagan Kelly (NIDA 2015). All of Lewis’ plays have been published by Playlab Theatre. He has also been shortlisted for the Philip Parsons Fellowship and has been twice nominated for a Matilda Award.

He is a graduate from QUT, NIDA and has recently completed his MPhil at UQ for his research into camp humour in Australian theatre.