Lucas Hnath

Playwrights: The Christians (Obie Award for Playwriting). Lucas received a 2017 Tony Award nomination for Best Play for A Doll’s House, Part 2. Lucas’s other plays include Dana H., Hillary and Clinton, Red Speedo, A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, Isaac’s Eye, and Death Tax. He has been produced on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre, Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep., and Ensemble Studio Theatre. His plays have also been premiered at Center Theatre Group, the Goodman, Humana Festival of New Plays, South Coast Repertory, and Victory Gardens. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, and an alumnus of New Dramatists. Awards: Whiting Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Kesselring Prize, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, Steinberg Playwright Award, and the Windham-Campbell Literary Prize.

Updated 11/14/19

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