Craig Lucas

Craig Lucas is a playwright, screenwriter and director of both theater and film. His plays include Prayer for My Enemy, Small Tragedy, Three Postcards, Missing Persons, Prelude to a Kiss, God's Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, The Singing Forest, and Ode To Joy , among others. He wrote the book for the musicals The Light in the Piazza, Two Boys, Orpheus in Love, and Am�lie . Lucas's screenplays include Longtime Companion, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss...See more

Craig Lucas is a playwright, screenwriter and director of both theater and film. His plays include Prayer for My Enemy, Small Tragedy, Three Postcards, Missing Persons, Prelude to a Kiss, God's Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, The Singing Forest, and Ode To Joy , among others. He wrote the book for the musicals The Light in the Piazza, Two Boys, Orpheus in Love, and Am�lie . Lucas's screenplays include Longtime Companion, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss, and The Dying Gaul . He has directed the plays The Light in the Piazza, This Thing of Darkness (coauthored with David Schulner), Saved Or Destroyed, Play Yourself, Ode to Joy ; and the films The Dying Gaul and Birds of America . Lucas has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, won three Obie awards, and received three Tony nominations. He is the recipient of the Excellence in Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. See less