Henry Lewis (playwright)

Magic Goes Wrong, Apollo Theatre, February 2022

In 2008, Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields co-founded Mischief Theatre while they were studying a drama foundation course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.[1]

In 2012, Lewis co-wrote with Sayer and Shields The Play That Goes Wrong,[2] which premiered later that year at The Old Red Lion, Islington.[3] Lewis played Robert Grove in both the original London cast[4] and the original Broadway cast.[5] In 2013, another Lewis, Sayer and Shields production, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, premiered at The Pleasance Theatre.[6] with Lewis amongst its original cast, playing Robert.[7]

In 2016, Lewis', Sayer's and Shields' play The Comedy About a Bank Robbery opened at the Criterion Theatre; Lewis was amongst its original cast, and played Robin Freeboys.[8] In August 2019, Magic Goes Wrong, a play written by Lewis, Sayer, Shields, Penn and Teller, premiered at the Quays Theatre; Lewis played Mind Mangler,[9] and subsequently took him on tour.[10][11] In September 2019, the next Lewis, Sayer and Shields play, Groan Ups, premiered at Vaudeville Theatre, as part of a projected year-long residency at the theatre (later curtailed due to COVID-19 restrictions[12]),[13] with Lewis playing Spencer.[14] In 2020, Lewis launched The Mystery Agency, an escape-room style puzzle game, on Kickstarter.[15]

In 2016, a production of Peter Pan Goes Wrong was aired by BBC1, with Lewis playing Robert.[16] The following year, they aired A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, with Lewis playing Robert.[17] BBC1 aired twelve episodes of The Goes Wrong Show[18] between December 2019[19] and November 2021.[20] In 2022, he played the Riddlemaster in Riddiculous, an ITV daytime game show hosted by Ranvir Singh.[21]