Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist and performer. Masked and merkin-ed, she works at the intersection of art, dance, and activism in a range of media including live performance, sculpture, collage, film, and video. She presents work worldwide in museums, galleries, festivals, and nightclubs. Among other awards, she won “Best Use of a Sex Toy” at Good Vibrations Erotic Film Festival, a Bessie nomination for the theatrical performance “Organ Player”, and Creative Capital and United States Artists Awards. Her first feature film “Narcissister Organ Player,” a hybrid performance/doc about her complex family history, premiered at Sundance 2018. Her activist short film "Narcissister Breast Work," premiered at Sundance 2020 and won a Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at Outfest 2021. Voyage Into Infinity, a large-scale performance commission, had its world premiere at Pioneer Works in 2024 and was presented at NYU Skirball during the 2026 Under The Radar Festival. Narcissister is a 2025 recipient of a Sir Peter Shaffer Charitable Foundation commission to develop a new theatrical piece at Playwrights Horizons and a 2025 recipient of an Anonymous Was A Woman Award.
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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
Mother, child, crone, shadow... Downtown provocateur Narcissister contains multitudes. Playwrights Horizons is deep in development for this newly commissioned work that pulls back the mask — or does it? — of this boundary-breaking artist. Interweaving dance, visual art, lo-fi magic, and an original score, Narcissister's newest work is searingly personal, and will find its premiere soon in Playwrights Horizons' upcoming seasons.
This production is the result of a Peter Shaffer Commission awarded by Playwrights Horizons.