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LUCAS HNATH
Nationality: USAemail: n/a Website: n/a
Literary Agent: ICM Partners represented by Val Day
Lucas Hnaths recent plays include a Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney, Death Tax, Red Speedo, Hillary and Clinton, Sake Tasting with a Seance to Follow, The Courtship of anna Nicole Smith, Odiles Ordeal, Tonguetied, and Three attempts at Corrective Eye Surgery. a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2011, Lucas work has been seen in production, workshops, and readings at Ensemble Studio Theatre, actors Theatre of Louisville, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Cleveland Public Theatre, Target Margin and Ontological-Hysteric Theater. He has also enjoyed playwriting residencies with The Royal Court Theatre and 24Seven Lab. Lucas is a two-time winner of the alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant for his feature-length screenplays, The Painting, the Machine, and the apple and Still Life. He is also a recipient of an EST/Sloan Project commission for his play, Isaacs Eye. Lucas received both his BFa and MFa from NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing and is a lecturer in NYUs Expository Writing Program
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About A Woman Named Sarah Courtship Of Anna Nicole Smith, The Death Tax Hard Lovin' Ever After Hillary And Clinton Isaac's Eye Nightnight Odile's Ordeal Public Reading Of An Unproduced Screenplay About The Death Of Walt Disney, A Speedo TonguetiedAbout A Woman Named Sarah
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a woman named Sarah goes to arizona to interview for a job, a job working for a man named John. John's wife, Cindy, also interviews Sarah. and then things get heated. and Sarah wants this job so much that she does something that hurts the feelings of her husband, Todd. This is a play about a woman named Sarah. Yeah, you know which one I'm talking about.
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Top of PageCourtship Of Anna Nicole Smith, The
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89 year-old Texas billionaire J. Howard Marshall tried many times to convince a young stripper named anna Nicole Smith to marry him. This is a play about that.
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Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY 2010
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Top of PageDeath Tax
It's 2010. December. Infirm Maxine thinks her daughter is paying nurse Tina to gently nudge her into the grave before the new year. Thinks she's doing this so her daughter doesn't have to pay hefty estate taxes, taxes that take effect on January 1. Nurse Tina is doing no such thing, but when Maxine offers Tina a portion of her sizable estate on the condition that she lives until the 1st, Tina changes her tune. But of course, the plan doesn't go according to plan. Death Tax is a darkly comic play about death and taxes and how we live with both.
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Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY 2012
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Top of PageHard Lovin' Ever After
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adapted from Love Suicides at the Women's Temple by the famed 18th century Japanese Dramatist Chikamatsu, Hard Lovin' Ever after tells the story of a pair of lovers pushed to the brink. Young and full of passion, these two can't realize their dream of a life together. She's forced into a marriage with a rich merchant to pay off her parents' debts. He's a fugitive in hiding at a Buddhist monastery. But their ardor can't be quelled by a few marriage or religious vows, so they set off on a course to double suicide, hoping to be united in bliss on a snow-white lotus.
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Top of PageHillary And Clinton
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In an alternate universe light years away from our own is a planet called Earth. It looks a lot like our Earth, except it's slightly different. and living on this other earth is a woman named Hillary. Hillary is trying to become the president of a country called the United States of America. It's 2008 and she's campaigning in a state called Iowa. She's not doing very well in the polls. She needs more money to keep the campaign going, so she calls her husband for help. He offers her a deal, a tough deal, but when she gets his help, she gets more than she bargained for. You may think you know where this story is going, but you don't. after all, the play takes place in an alternate universe where anything can happen...
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Workshop: 24Seven Lab 2009
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Top of PageIsaac's Eye
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Isaac Newton once stuck a needle into his tear duct to try to figure out how the eye sees light. This is true. He really did that. But still, really? Did he really have to do that? Isaac's Eye playfully blends the facts of Newton's life with an equal dose fiction to explore what great people are willing to sacrifice to become great people.
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Workshop: First Light Festival 2010
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Top of PageNightnight
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An astronaut is in trouble. He cannot sleep and he cannot go home
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Top of PageOdile's Ordeal
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Odile and her grifter lover, Paul, are attempting to scam the wealthy-yet-dying Jean Phillipe out of his estate. But when Odile begins to fall in love with Jean Phillipe, she tries to drop out of the plan and out of Paul's life. Leaving behind her old life turns out to be easier said than done. The body fights with the mind; words clash with actions; a chain of events results in Odile's untimely death. Enter a shaman, who revives Odile, by injecting her soul into the body of one of her lovers. But this quick little fix will not hold. Odile's Ordeal is a Parisian screwball comedy, a delirious exploration of desire, and an occult-tinged soul-swapping fantasia, written to be performed entirely in lip-sync.
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Workshop: 24Seven Lab (2006); Studio 42 (2010).
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University of Miami 2012
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Top of PagePublic Reading Of An Unproduced Screenplay About The Death Of Walt Disney, A
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Tonight -- aided by a pack of cigarettes, a bottle of vodka, three actors, and a pile of dead lemmings -- Walt Disney will read to you a screenplay he wrote about his final days on earth.
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Top of PageSpeedo
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Top of PageTonguetied
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In a foreign land, a Man meets a Woman. He doesn't belong in the country. He's seeking shelter. He's seeking shelter, and maybe the Woman can help. They don't speak the same language. They kinda sorta speak some English. They speak broken English. They fall in love. Maybe. They get married. But that was a misunderstanding, and things get messy when the Woman's husband comes home. Tonguetied is a broken language romantic comedy with songs. It's about love and talking and talking about love.
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Workshops: 24Seven Lab (2004); Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre (2005); Crown Point Festival (2007).
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