Information AboutCraig Lucas |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT CRAIG LUCAS | |
| 1951 births | |
| lucas, craig | |
| living people | |
| american dramatists and playwrights | |
| gay writers | |
| lgbt screenwriters | |
| lgbt directors | |
| boston university alumni | |
| lucas | |
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Born on 30th April, 1951 and abandoned in a car in Atlanta Georgia, with 8 months adopted by Pennsylvanian couple. The family was conservative, the father was a FBI agent and the mother a housewife. In the '60s and '70 he was interested in the political left and found out his attraction towards men. He claimes that his coming out made it possible for him to develope as a playwright and person. In 1973 he graduated from Boston University, as BA in theatre and creative writing. His mentor Anne Saxton urged him to try his luck in New York. He worked in all possible dayjobs but also in Broadway musicals he was acting, singing and dancing in for example: “Sheandoah”, “On the Twentieth Century”, “Sweeny Todd” 1991 he was rewriting a play “Missing Persons”, which a friend showed to director Noman Rene, who promised to produce the play when finished. This was the begining of a 15 years collaboration and relationship. The two developed, while working on “Missing Persons” a cabater revue “Marry me a little” in 1991. It is about two people living next to each other, never meeting but both siniging of yearning and failure to connect. After his early works (romatic comedies) up to 1998, he began to write much more tragic works about AIDS “The Dying Gaul” and “Singing Forest”. He expaned his theatrical reach as director and writer on musical pieces “The Light in the Piazza” nad “Don Juan de Marco”. Lucas also directed classics like “Miss Julie” and ”Loot”. His work is unintentionally divided in gay-plays (“Blue Window”, “Longtime Companion”) and straight-plays (“Reckless”,“Three Postcards”,“Pelude to a kiss”). Lucas considers himself able to write about human problems in global, so that he doesn't have to write only about gays. The straight critics still think he is too gay and the gay critics think he is not gay enough. WORKS Broadway
Off-Broadway
Regional Theater
Films
REFERENCES AWARDS In the last year, he won the Obie for Best American Play for Small Tragedy and the New York Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay for The Secret Lives of Dentists. In 2001 he received an Obie for his direction of Harry Kondoleon’s Saved or Destroyed. His awards include the Excellence in Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the PEN/Laura Pels mid-career achievement award, the Outer Critics, L.A. Drama Critics, Drama Logue and LAAMBDA Literary Awards; he has also received a Tony nomination, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the NEA and the PEW Charitable Trust and has been a Pulitzer Finalist |
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