Frederick Lewis is a Professor in the School of Media Arts & Studies at Ohio University and a documentary filmmaker whose work has been seen on PBS stations throughout the U.S. as well as on PBS’s WORLD channel, and screened at more than 130 cultural/educational venues, including the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and the world headquarters of The Explorers Club in NYC. Over the years these projects have taken him to Russia, Greenland, Argentina, Chile (sailing to Cape Horn), Newfoundland and Alaska.
Lewis is a recipient of the Presidential Teacher Award, Ohio University’s highest honor for transformative teaching, curriculum innovation and mentoring. Hundreds of Lewis’s students have gone on to work in all aspects of the entertainment and corporate production industries for organizations such as Lucasfilm, Scott Free Productions (Ridley Scott), Dreamworks Animation, Jim Henson Productions, International Creative Management (now CAA), iHeartMedia, Laika, Teton Gravity Research, NFL Films and Major League Baseball. Some have served as writers, story editors and/or producers for shows such as Family Guy, Community, NCIS, Supergirl, and the current version of Fraggle Rock.
Internationally, Lewis has directed twenty-five experiential learning programs in eight countries including Spain, Ireland, Morocco, Ecuador and Guyana, serving more than 300 students. He has been a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Pecs in Hungary, a U.S. Embassy lecturer in Germany and Malaysia, and a Teaching Fellow at Leeds Beckett University in England. He has lectured or conducted workshops at universities in France, Ukraine, Romania and Vietnam and China.
Professor Lewis holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Brown University and has also taught at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design.