Draft:David Norman Lewis

David Norman Lewis is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and historian. He is a contributor to  The Stranger, Seattle Weekly, and BlackPast.org and wrote the social history of Bigfoot, Evergreen Ape.

Lewis appeared in popular American sitcoms Roseanne and Young Sheldon, as well as the Ellen Degeneres-produced NBC reality television program  First Dates and the television game show Deal or No Deal.

In addition to his journalistic career,  Lewis is also a filmmaker and screenwriter. Alongside Noah Zoltan Sofian, Lewis codirected and cowrote the film Fantasy A Gets a Mattress, which won Best Narrative Feature at both the 2023 Seattle Black Film Festival and the Northwest Film Forum's 2023 Local Sightings Film Festival. The film also won Best PNW Feature Film at Tacoma Film Festival in 2023 and Lewis was given the Most Promising Filmmaker Award by the Spokane International Film Festival jury in 2024. He has co-written and acted in the short films Moron and Fantasy A Gets Jacked.

His films have appeared in American and international film festivals at the Northwest Film Forum's Local Sightings Film Festival, the Tacoma Film Festival, Spokane International Film Festival, Silent City Film Festival (Ithaca, New York), Oska Bright Film Festival (Brighton, UK), TASH Film Festival (Baltimore, MD), Capital City Film Festival (Lansing, MI), Nosebleeds Film Festival (Sioux Falls, SD), and Berlin Indies Film Festival (Berlin, Germany).

He was a 2023 Seattle Film Critics Society Achievement in Pacific Northwest Filmmaking award nominee.

He was a 2023 Seattle Public Library Eulalie and Carlo Scandiuzzi Writers' Room Residency program recipient.