Craig Lucas

Craig Lucas won the Obie Award for Best American Play for “Small Tragedy” and the New York Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay for THE SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS. His other plays include “Blue Window,” “Prelude to a Kiss,” “God’s Heart,” “The Dying Gaul,” “Missing Persons,” “Stranger” and “Singing Forest;” his screenplays include LONGTIME COMPANION, PRELUDE TO A KISS, RECKLESS, and THE DYING GAUL, which marks his debut as a film director. Lucas wrote the book for the musical “The Light in the Piazza,” music and lyrics by Adam Guettel; the musical play “Three Postcards” with music and lyrics by Craig Carnelia; the libretto for the opera “Orpheus in Love” for composer Gerald Busby; and he co-authored “This Thing of Darkness” with David Schulner.

His other awards include an Obie for his direction of Harry Kondoleon’s “Saved or Destroyed,” the Excellence in Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the PEN/Laura Pels mid-career achievement award, Outer Critics, L.A. Drama Critics, Drama-Logue and LAMBDA Literary Awards as well as the Sundance Audience Award (LONGTIME COMPANION). Lucas divides his time between upstate New York and Seattle where he serves as Associate Artistic Director of the Intiman Theater.

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