Plays include Missing Persons, Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss, God’s Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy, 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, Amélie, Sousatzka. He directed the world premiere of The Light in the Piazza, Harry Kondoleon’s plays Saved Or Destroyed and Play Yourself, and 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 and three Obie Awards.
Craig LucasParadise Square
Craig Lucas, An American in Paris
Craig Lucas, An American in Paris
Craig Lucas, The Light in the Piazza
Craig Lucas, Missing Persons
Craig Lucas, Missing Persons
Craig Lucas, Prelude to a Kiss
Craig Lucas, Prelude to a Kiss
Craig Lucas, Prelude to a Kiss
Craig Lucas, Prelude to a Kiss
Craig Lucas, Reckless
Craig Lucas has appeared on Broadway in 4 shows.
Craig Lucas has not appeared in the West End.
Craig Lucas has been nominated for several awards including Best Book of a Musical at the Tony Awards for "Paradise Square," "An American in Paris," and "The Light in the Piazza." He also received nominations for Outstanding Book of a Musical at the Drama Desk Awards for "An American in Paris." In the play category, he was nominated for Outstanding Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Missing Persons" and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "Prelude to a Kiss." Additionally, he received nominations for Outstanding New Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Prelude to a Kiss" and "Reckless." Lucas also won Best Play at the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for "Prelude to a Kiss."
Craig Lucas has written 26 shows including Don Juan de Marco (Bookwriter), Marry Me a Little (Conceiver), Miss Julie (Adaptation), Three Postcards (Bookwriter), Prelude to a Kiss (Playwright), Prelude to a Kiss (Playwright), Orpheus in Love (Playwright), 3 Postcards (Bookwriter), Missing Persons (Playwright), Blue Window (Playwright), God's Heart (Playwright), The Dying Gaul (Playwright), Stranger (Playwright), This Thing of Darkness (Playwright), The Light in the Piazza (Bookwriter), Small Tragedy (Playwright), Reckless (Playwright), Prayer for My Enemy (Playwright), The Singing Forest (Playwright), The Lying Lesson (Playwright), The Lying Lesson (Playwright), Ode to Joy (Playwright), Amelie (Book), Sousatzka (Book), I Was Most Alive with You (Playwright), Days of Wine and Roses (Book).
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