Craig Lucas

Craig Lucas wrote the plays Blue Window, Reckless, Prelude to a Kiss, The Dying Gaul, Small Tragedy and many others. Musicals include The Light in the Piazza, An American in Paris, Amélie and Marry Me A Little (songs by Stephen Sondheim). Screenplays include Longtime Companion, Prelude to a Kiss and The Secret Lives of Dentists. His opera with composer Nico Muhly, Two Boys, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera and the English National Opera. He wrote the libretto for Christopher Wheeldon’s ballet Cinderella. Lucas directed the world premiere of The Light in the Piazza and the film of his play The Dying Gaul. He won an Obie Award for his direction of Harry Kondoleon’s Saved or Destroyed. A four-time Tony nominee, he has received two Best Play Obies, the Excellence in Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Sundance Audience Award, Steinberg Best Play Award, Best Screenplay from the New York Film Critics and the Hermitage Greenfield Prize. A Pulitzer finalist, Lucas is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild, SDC and the Democratic Socialists of America. He lives in the Hudson River Valley with his husband, award-winning writer Harmon dot aut.

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