Lucas Hnath

Lucas Hnath’s 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, Odile’s 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, Isaac’s Eye. Lucas received both his BFA and MFA from NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing and is a lecturer in NYU’s Expository Writing Program.