Craig Lucas
Craig Lucas (born April 30, 1951) is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director.
Biography
Born on April 30, 1951, he was found abandoned in a car in Atlanta, Georgia. Lucas was adopted when he was eight months old by a conservative Pennsylvania couple. His father was an FBI agent; his mother was a housewife and painter. She was born a Jew but suppressed the identity which Lucas relates in his storytelling. He graduated in 1969 from Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. In the 1960s and 1970s, Lucas became interested in the political left and discovered an attraction towards men. He is openly gay, and recalls that his coming out made it possible for him to develop as a playwright and as a person.
In 1973, Lucas left Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts in theatre and creative writing. His mentor, Anne Sexton, urged him to try his luck in New York City as a playwright. He worked in many day jobs while performing in Broadway musicals including Shenandoah, On the Twentieth Century, Rex, and Sweeney Todd. Stephen Sondheim would later tell him he was a better writer than an actor.
Lucas, Craig Filmography
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2005, role: actor , character name: Strip
Lucas, Craig Filmography
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2010, role: writer
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2008, role: director
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2005, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee: Best Book of a Musical
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2005, role: writer
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2005, role: director
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2002, role: writer
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1995, role: writer
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1995, role: writer
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1992, role: producer
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1992, role: writer
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1992, role: writer
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1989, role: writer
Craig, Lucas Filmography
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2013, role: miscellaneous crew
Krack
And I believe it's time
The great escape from you
Cut-off from all clear lines
You turn it upside down
The stopwatch prophecy
You try to take it all back
Something will make it go krack
And I want to tell you then
But then I lose the words
It's neither this nor that
It's all the same
You try to take it all back
Something will make it go krack
I tried nothing at all
Something will make it go krack
Find more words to throw back
You will clearly need them
Now that I'm back
'Cause it's hard to soothe sympathy
While our sanity is under attack
You try to take it all back
It's all the same
You try to take it all back