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- Craig Lucas was born on April 30, 1951 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is a writer and director, known for The Dying Gaul (2005), The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002) and Longtime Companion (1989).
- At eight months he was adopted by a Pennsylvania couple.
- Was abandoned in a car in Atlanta, Georgia the day he was born.
- Nominated for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Prelude to a Kiss".
- Was nominated for Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as author of Best Play nominee "Prelude to a Kiss" and again in 2005 for writing the book for "Light in the Piazza."
- Though primarily known as a writer (and more recently, director), he started out as an actor, in the chorus of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd". While in "ST", he wrote a musical ("Marry Me a Little") utilizing Sondheim's songs, in which Lucas co-starred. The legendary Sondheim frankly told him he should be a writer instead of a performer, and Lucas has gone on to become one of the most prolific and acclaimed writers of his generation.
- When Alec Baldwin kissed the old man onstage [in "Prelude to a Kiss"], the audience in the theater went, "Awww." When he kissed him in the film, you would have thought I brought a Rwandan child out and cut his head off. [Laughs] The studio said: Let's make it a hug instead. And I said: Well, then we'd have to call it "Prelude to a Hug." I didn't come to the film with the adventuresome spirit that you need to take a play and rethink it. If I had the foresight, I would have made a more playful picture.
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