Craig Lucas was born on April 30, 1951 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Prelude to a Kiss (1992), Longtime Companion (1989) and The Dying Gaul (2005).
Obie Award for Best New American Play, PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Obie Award for Directio...
Nominations
Tony Award for Best Play, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay, Outer Critics Ci...
Movies
Birds of America, The Dying Gaul, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Reckless, Prelude to a Kiss, Longtime Companion
Star Sign
Taurus
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When Alec Baldwin kissed the old man onstage [in "Prelude to a Kiss"], the audience in the theater went, "Awww." When he kissed him in the film, you would have thought I brought a Rwandan child out and cut his head off. [Laughs] The studio said: Let's make it a hug instead. And I said: Well, then we'd have to call it "Prelude to a Hug." I didn't come to the film with the adventuresome spirit that you need to take a play and rethink it. If I had the foresight, I would have made a more playful picture.
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Fact
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Adam Guettel and his musical, "The Light in the Piazza" at the Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 2012 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Musical Production.
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Nominated for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Prelude to a Kiss".
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Though primarily known as a writer (and more recently, director), he started out as an actor, in the chorus of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd". While in "ST", he wrote a musical ("Marry Me a Little") utilizing Sondheim's songs, in which Lucas co-starred. The legendary Sondheim frankly told him he should be a writer instead of a performer, and Lucas has gone on to become one of the most prolific and acclaimed writers of his generation.
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as author of Best Play nominee "Prelude to a Kiss" and again in 2005 for writing the book for "Light in the Piazza."
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Was abandoned in a car in Atlanta, Georgia the day he was born.
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At eight months he was adopted by a Pennsylvania couple.
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