Lucas Hnath
Lucas Hnath is an American playwright. He won a Whiting Award.
Life
He grew up in Orlando. He teaches at New York University.[1]
He was resident playwright at New Dramatists.[2]
Works
- Death Tax. Dramatist's Play Service. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8222-2755-7., Royal Court Theatre
- A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney. Dramatist's Play Service. 25 August 2014. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-8222-2993-3., Soho Rep;
- Isaac's Eye. Dramatist's Play Service. 17 March 2014. ISBN 978-0-8222-2922-3., NYC’s Ensemble Studio Theatre;
- Red Speedo, Overlook Press, 2015, ISBN 9781468310849 Studio Theatre
- The Christians Overlook, 2015, ISBN 9781468310832, Actors Theatre of Louisville; Playwright's Horizons [3][4][5][6][7]
Awards
- 2015 Whiting Award
- 2016 Kesselring Prize
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Whitfield Cook Award
- Two Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Citations
References
- ↑ tcg.org
- ↑ "Lucas Hnath". New Dramatists. Retrieved 2015-09-19.
- ↑ Paulson, Michael (2015-09-03). "Lucas Hnath' s "The Christians" Tackles a Schism Among the Flock". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-09-19.
- ↑ "Lucas Hnath’s American Strangeness". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2015-09-19.
For all its control on the page, "The Christians" is about the uncontrollable, which is to say, how we imagine what life will look like once we enter the everlasting.
- ↑ "Believers Vs. Believers in Lucas Hnath's ‘The Christians’". AMERICAN THEATRE. Retrieved 2015-09-19.
- ↑ Keane, Erin (March 8, 2014). "Theological Bombshells Land in Lucas Hnath's Humana Festival Play 'The Christians'". 89.3 WFPL. Retrieved 2015-09-19.
On the way out of the Pamela Brown on Friday night, I overheard patrons debating the theological points the play raises with an interest and urgency that affirmed both Hnath’s approach to telling this particular story and the power, in general, of storytelling on stage.
- ↑ Soloski, Alexis. "The Christians review - a mature and elusive play about faith". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-09-19.
Whether or not you believe in God, you should believe in Lucas Hnath.
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