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Events
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
11:15 a.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor
South Campus
Craig Lucas’ plays include Missing Persons, Blue Window, Reckless, God’s Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy, Prayer for My Enemy and The Singing Forest. He wrote the book for The Light in the Piazza; the musical Three Postcards; the libretto for the opera Orpheus in Love; and has recently completed the libretto for Two Boys, an opera with composer Nico Muhly, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. His new English adaptations include Brecht’s Galileo, Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, and Strindberg’s Miss Julie.
Mr. Lucas’ screenplays include Longtime Companion, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless and The Dying Gaul, which he also directed. He directed the 2008 film Birds of America. Onstage he directed Harry Kondoleon’s plays Saved or Destroyed (Obie Award for Best Director), Play Yourself, as well as his own play This Thing of Darkness (co-authored with David Schulner)
His work has been seen on and off Broadway and at renowned theaters across the country. He has twice won the Obie Award for Best Play, and he has been nominated twice for a Tony Award and three times for the Drama Desk Award. His numerous honors include the L.A. Drama Critics Award, the Steinberg/American Theater Critics Award for Best American Play, the Excellence in Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Laura Pels/PEN Mid-Career Achievement Award.
Mr. Lucas serves as associate artistic director at the Intiman Theater in Seattle, and he is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild, SSDC and PEN America.