Craig Lucas (
Playwright) Stage works include
Missing Persons,
Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss, God’s Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy, Prayer For My Enemy, The Singing Forest, Ode To Joy, I Was Most Alive With You. Screenplays include
Longtime Companion (Sundance Audience Award)
, The Secret Lives of Dentists (NY Film Critics Best Screenplay Award)
, Reckless, Blue Window, The Dying Gaul. Libretti include:
The Light in the Piazza,
Two Boys, Orpheus in Love, 3 Postcards, An American in Paris, and
Amélie. He directed the world premiere of
The Light in the Piazza, Harry Kondoleon’s plays
Saved or Destroyed and
Play Yourself, the films
The Dying Gaul and
Birds of America. He received the Excellence in Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Laura Pels/PEN Mid-Career Award, the Greenfield Prize, LAMBDA Literary Award, Hull-Warriner Award, Flora Roberts Award, Steinberg/ACTA Best Play Award among others. He has three Tony nominations.