Craig Lucas is the author of plays (Stranger, Dying Gaul, God's Heart, Prelude to a Kiss, Blue Window, Reckless, Missing Persons), movies (Longtime Companion, Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless, Blue Window), opera libretto (Orphans in Love), musical books (Three Postcards, Marry Me a Little), and essays. He has received the Outer Critics Circle, Burns Mantle Best Musical, Drama-Logue, Obie, George and Elisabeth Marton, L.A. Drama Critics, GLAAD Media, Sundance Audience and Villager awards, as well as Tony nomination and three Drama Desk nominations. He has been a Pulitzer finalist and is the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller and NEA/TCG fellowships along with play commissions from South Coast Repertory, Hartford Stage and Actors Theatre of Louisville.