awards & reviews

Actor

RUDE (35mm 1995 Official Cannes Selection film directed by Clement Virgo)

• "Rude Awakening" (Xtra Magazine, June 8th 1996)
• "A Masterpiece of Rudeness" (Saturday Sun, Sept. 30th 1995)
• "Rude Girls" (FLARE Magazine, 1995)
• "Rude's Poweful black voice rivets attention" (Toronto Star, Sept. 29th 1995)
• "Three unrelated lives merge in RUDE" (Toronto Express, Sept. 26th 1995)
• "Renegades on the Riviera" (MacLean's Magazine, May 22 1995)

AFROCENTRIC (play written by David Odhiambo)

• "Symbiosis produces beautiful performance" (Toronto Star, Vit Wagner, 1996)

RIOT (play written by Andrew Moodie)

• "Play provides riotous.." (Ottawa Sun, January 1997)
• "Riot" (The Charlatan, Feb. 1997)
• "Black Like Me" (Ottawa Citizen, Jan. 1997)

Once Upon a Time in the Park (written by Tarek Ghaleb)

• "More than just stereotyping..." (Toronto Star, Apri1 1997)

IMPERCEPTIBLE MUTABILITIES IN THE THIRD KINGDOM (play written by suzan lori-parks)

• " A harsh but often oblique allegory" (Globe and Mail, Feb. 18th 1992)
• "Rich play, fine cast... (Toronto Star, Feb. 16th 1992)

DESH PARDESH (South Asian Festival)

• "Sharon Lewis creative identity conflicts" (NOW Magazine, June 1996 online version)

on-air host

ZeD

• "Media Magnets" (University of Toronto Magazine, 2004)
• "Hottest art gallery screens on weeknights" (Toronto Star, Dec. 2002)
• "Toronto Rocks serves up more satisfaction this time"by Andrew Ryan (Globe and Mail)
• 2004 Leo Nomination
• 2003 Gemini Nomination
• "Canada's Top 30 Women" (Elle Canada)
• "ZeD aims for the 'sweet spot'" by Amanda Gill (Globe and Mail)
• "Kudos and Kvetches" from the Vancouver Courier
• "ZeD like a channel all its own" by David Spanner (Movie Reporter)

counterSpin

• "The Spin Doctor" (Saturday Night Magazine, August 25th 2001)
• "Sharon Lewis finds activism experience..." (Canadian Press, Oct. 3rd 200 I)
• "Sharon Lewis at home on the counterSpin..".
  ( SHARE magazine, Dec. 2001 )
• "signal"
• "Counterspin host finds footing quickly despite frenzied debut" by Brian Gorman (TVData Features Syndicate)

Director & Writer

• "sistahs" - review by Jon Kaplan (Now Magazine 1994)
• "sistahs the flava of soup" (Alison Duke, Metro Word, Oct. 1994)