Craig Lucas Biography (1951?-) (original) (raw)

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Born April 30, 1951 (some sources cite 1950), in Atlanta, GA; son of CharlesS. (an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation) and Eleanore (a painter;maiden name, Altmont) Lucas; companion of Timothy Scott Melester (a surgeon;died, January 5, 1995). Addresses: Agent: Michael Peretzian, CreativeArtists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Writer, director, actor

Birth Details

April 30, 1951?

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Work
• Director
• Saved or Destroyed, 2000
• Play Yourself, New York Theatre Workshop, Century Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, 2002
• This Thing of Darkness, Atlantic Theatre, New York City, 2002
• Stage Appearances
• Confederate sniper, Nathan, and Henry, Shenandoah (musical), AlvinTheatre, New York City, between 1975 and 1977
• Mark Smeaton, Rex (musical), Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City,1976
• Understudy for the role of Max Jacobs, On the Twentieth Century (musical), St. James Theatre, New York City, 1978-1979
• Member of the ensemble, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (musical), Uris Theatre, New York City, 1979-1980
• Member of the ensemble, Marry Me a Little (musical revue), Production Company Theatre, 1980, then Actor's Playhouse, New York City, 1981
• Also appeared as a dormouse, Alice in Wonderland (musical), PrinceStreet Players.
• Film Work
• Producer
• (With others) Prelude to a Kiss, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1992
• WRITINGS
• Stage Plays
• (Book) Marry Me a Little (musical revue), songs by Stephen Sondheim, Production Company Theatre, 1980, then Actor's Playhouse, New York City, 1981
• Missing Persons (two-act), Production Company Theatre, 1981, thenAtlantic Theatre, New York City, 1995; published in A Prelude to a Kiss and Other Plays, Theatre Communications Group (New York City), 2000
• Alec Wilder: Clues to a Life (two-act; based on Alec Wilder's book_Letters I Never Mailed_), off-Broadway production, 1982
• Reckless (two-act), South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA, c. 1984-1985, then (revised version) Circle Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1988-1989; published in Reckless and Blue Window: Two Plays, Theatre Communications Group, 1989
• Blue Window (one-act), Production Company, Theatre Guinevere, 1984, later Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1996, then ManhattanEnsemble Theatre, New York City, 2000, later Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park, 2003; published by Samuel French(New York City), c. 1985, published in Reckless and Blue Window: Two Plays, Theatre Communications Group, 1989
• (Book) Three Postcards (one-act musical), music and lyrics by Craig Carnelia, Playwrights' Horizons Theatre, New York City, 1987, then Circle Repertory Theatre, 1994; published in Best Plays of 1986-1987, Dodd, Mead (New York City), 1988, published in A Prelude to a Kiss and Other Plays, Theatre Communications Group, 2000
• The Scare, Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, New York City, 1988
• Prelude to a Kiss (three-act), South Coast Repertory Theatre, 1988, new version (two-act), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA, 1989, further revision, Circle Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1990, then Helen HayesTheatre, New York City, 1990; published in A Prelude to a Kiss and OtherPlays, Theatre Communications Group, 2000
• Throwing Your Voice, Naked Angels Theatre Company, 1991; publishedin What I Meant Was: New Plays and Selected One-Acts, Theatre Communications Group, 1999
• Oedipus at Westbury, A.R.T., 1992
• (Libretto) Orpheus in Love (opera), music by Gerald Burby, CircleRepertory Theatre, 1992-1993
• God's Heart, Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, RI, 1995, thenMitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, New York City, 1997; published in What I MeantWas: New Plays and Selected One-Acts, Theatre Communications Group, 1999
• Credo, New York City production, 1995; published in What I Meant Was: New Plays and Selected One-Acts, Theatre Communications Group, 1999
• The Dying Gaul, Glasgow, Scotland, then Dimson Theatre, Vineyard Theatre, New York City, both 1998; published in What I Meant Was: New Playsand Selected One-Acts, Theatre Communications Group, 1999
• What I Meant Was: New Plays and Selected One-Acts (contains BadDream, The Boom Box, Boyfriend Riff, Credo, Drugs in America, The Dying Gaul, God's Heart, Grief, If Columbus Does Not Figure in Your Travel Plans, Throwing Your Voice, Unmemorable, and What I Meant Was), Theatre Communications Group, 1999
• Stranger, Vineyard Theatre, 2000
• "Examination," The Square, Public Theatre, New York City, 2001
• (With Adam Guettel) Light in the Piazza (musical), 2002
• (Adaptor) Miss Julie, Unicorn Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival,Stockbridge, MA, 2002
• (With David Schulner) This Thing of Darkness, Atlantic Theatre, 2002
• Author of Longtime Companion. Also wrote the book for the musical_Queen_ and wrote the libretto for the opera Breedlove. Wrote Savage Light with David Schulner.
• Screenplays
• Longtime Companion (based on his stage play), Samuel Goldwyn, 1990
• Prelude to a Kiss (based on his stage play), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1992
• Reckless (based on his stage play), Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1995
• The Secret Lives of Dentists (based on the novella The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley), Manhattan Pictures International, 2002
• Teleplays
• Specials
• "Blue Window," American Playhouse, PBS, 1987
• Episodes
• "Fern's Heart of Darkness," Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground, HBO, 1997
• Radio Plays
• Bad Dream, WBAI, 1992
• Contributor to anthologies, including Gay Men at the Millennium. Contributor to periodicals, including Advocate.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

• Contemporary Dramatists, 6th edition, St. James Press, 1999

Periodicals

• Advocate, November 21, 2000, p. 96
• American Theatre, January, 2001, p. 36
• Los Angeles Times, June 5, 1990, p. F1
• New York Times, March 11, 1990; March 18, 1990
• Time Out New York, May 7, 1998
• Washington Post, May 25, 1990, p. D1