Craig Lucas wrote the plays Missing Persons, Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss, God's Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy, The Singing Forest, Prayer for My Enemy, The Lying Lesson, Ode To Joy, I Was Most Alive With You and Death of the Republic.  His screenplays include Blue Window, Longtime Companion, Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless and The Secret Lives of Dentists. Lucas has written scripts for many musical projects including 3 Postcards, The Light in the Piazza , An American in Paris, Amélie, Nico Muhly’s opera Two Boys as well as two operas with composer Gerald Busby, Three Women (based on Robert Altman’s film) and Orpheus in Love. With Norman René and Suzanne Henry, Lucas created the musical anthology Marry Me A Little, a story told entirely in songs by Stephen Sondheim selected from his trunk songs. Lucas’ directorial work includes the films The Dying Gaul  and  Birds of America, the Harry Kondoleon plays Saved Or Destroyed and Play Yourself; also the world premiere of The Light in the Piazza  and his own plays Ode to Joy, I Was Most Alive With You and This Thing of Darkness. Lucas’s new English adaptations include Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, Brecht’s Galileo and Strindberg’s Miss Julie.