Craig Lucas Biography (1951?-)

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 bookLetters 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 musicalQueen 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

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