Paul Lucas was an American playwright and producer based in New York City. He was best known for his play, Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women, which won a Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe[2][3] and a High Commendation from Amnesty International for Freedom of Expression,[4] and was performed by the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University.[5][6][7]
Lucas founded Paul Lucas Productions,[when?] a production, management, and touring organization that specializes in international work.[14] His productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe have included What I Heard About Iraq, an anti-Iraq War play by Simon Levy adapted from a prose poem by Eliot Weinberger. The play received a Fringe First award at the festival and toured in the UK.[15][16] In 2006, he and associate Gail Winar produced The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac, which starred Taylor Mac.[17] It won a Herald Angel Award in Edinburgh, and played in various cities.[18][19][20] He produced Woody Sez: The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie, which starred David M. Lutken first at the festival in 2007 and later on tour in Europe[21][22] and the United States.[23] He produced the Edinburgh Festival Fringe presentation of Dai (enough), a one-woman show written and performed by Iris Bahr, about characters in a Tel Aviv cafe moments before a suicide bomber enters.[24][25] He has also worked with American comedian and drag performer Miss Coco Peru.[26]
In 2012, Lucas turned his attention to creating his own work, beginning with the play Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women, with the assistance of dramaturge Morgan Jenness, produced at the Pleasance Theater during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2015, directed by Linda Ames Key. It received a Fringe First Award,[27][28][29] a High Commendation from Amnesty International for Freedom of Expression, and nominations for the Best of Edinburgh Award, the Holden Street Theaters Award, and the Feminist Fest Award.[30][31][32] In 2015, the American Repertory Theater sponsored a one-night reading of the script at Harvard University[33] and produced the play in 2017,[34][35] with support from grants by the National Endowment for the Arts.[36][37]
^"Taylor Mac". Broadway Baby. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
^"WoodySez.com". www.woodysez.com. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
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