Atlas Arts Lab presents Eva Lewis: Help Wanted: Looking for a Black Woman
We depend on Black women whether it be when we least expect it, at our worst, for an election, or to razzle dazzle our lives. This show dives into the hilarity, awkwardness, and fun of how Black women show up in today’s America while not taking themselves too seriously. This laugh out loud experience will leave audiences feeling like slightly better allies.
If she saw it, Michelle Obama would definitely hopefully say she loved this show.
Bonnet Talk, based in DC, is an all-Black women sketch comedy troupe made up of seasoned improvisers and writers. They perform regularly in the DMV area. The cast includes Eva Lewis, Chizo Nwagwu, Arie Rich, Tandra T. Turner, and Francesca Washington.
Ages: 13 and Older
Run Time: 1 hour
Content Advisory: Mild usage of flashing or strobing lights, weapons, swearing, and explicit music. Mild references and depictions of self harm, sexual content drug use, violence, grief and infertility.
Run Time: 1 hour
Eva Lewis is a Washington, DC–based improviser, writer, and cultural strategist whose artistic practice sits at the intersection of comedy, community engagement, and social change. Trained at Second City Chicago, Washington Improv Theatre, and Studio Acting Conservatory, with additional coursework at iO Chicago and Upright Citizens Brigade, Lewis has performed widely with DC-area improv and sketch teams, at international comedy festivals, and across major platforms including DC Capital Fringe, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Second City New York’s Salt Pepper Ketchup: Improv All The Way. She is also the co-creator and performer of White Privilege/Black Power, an award-winning diversity and inclusion improv show, and a longtime collaborator with the sketch troupe Bonnet Talk. Alongside her artistic work, Lewis is an attorney, grassroots organizer, and national political operative, experiences that deeply inform her commitment to coalition-building, deep listening, and creating spaces rooted in humanity and joy.
During her Atlas Arts Lab Residency, Lewis plans to develop a new Second City–style sketch revue, in collaboration with Bonnet Talk, that centers Black women’s experiences through character-driven, culturally resonant comedy, while refining her writing and producing process through a collaborative writers room. She also aims to reconnect comedy to the broader DMV community by creating accessible, live theatrical work and hosting a community improv workshop for Black women, reinforcing her belief that comedy can be a tool for rest, liberation, and collective imagination. @evarlewis