CRAIG LUCAS
CRAIG LUCAS Plays include Missing Persons, Blue Window, Reckless, God’s Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy and The Singing Forest . Screenplays include Longtime Companion , The Secret Lives of Dentists, Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless and The Dying Gaul , which he also directed. Lucas wrote the book for The Light in the Piazza , music and lyrics by Adam Guettel. Onstage he directed Harry Kondoleon’s plays Saved or Destroyed at Rattlestick and Play Yourself as well as his own play This Thing of Darkness (co-authored with David Schulner) at the Atlantic. Twice nominated for a Tony (Prelude to a Kiss and The Light in the Piazza ), three times for the Drama Desk (Prelude, Missing Persons and Reckless ), he has received numerous awards including the Sundance Audience Award (Longtime Companion ), L.A. Drama Critics (Blue Window ), Obie awards for Best Play (Small Tragedy and Prelude ) and Best Director (Saved or Destroyed ), the American Theater Critics Award for Best American Play (The Singing Forest ), the New York Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay (The Secret Lives of Dentists ), the Excellence in Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Laura Pels/PEN Mid-Career Achievement Award. Lucas serves as associate artistic director at Intiman Theater in Seattle.
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