Lucas attended
Dwight-Englewood School and graduated in 1979. He performed and worked in several theatrical offices in New York City before joining Paul Szilard Productions, where he booked for the
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. While still working with Szilard, he produced several plays
off-Broadway, including
Messages for Gar which featured
John Epperson and
Alex McCord;
TimeSlips, written by
Anne Basting;
Nosferatu, which starred
Nikolai Kinski; and
Son of Drakula, written and performed by
David Drake. After a fellowship in Arts Administration at the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lucas became the Director of Press and Marketing for
Williamstown Theatre Festival. Lucas founded Paul Lucas Productions, a production, management, and touring organization that specializes in international work. His productions at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe have included
What I Heard About Iraq, an anti-Iraq War play by
Simon Levy adapted from a
prose poem by
Eliot Weinberger. The play received a
Fringe First award at the festival and toured in the UK. In 2006, he and associate Gail Winar produced
The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac, which starred
Taylor Mac. It won a Herald Angel Award in Edinburgh, and played in various cities. He produced
Woody Sez: The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie, which starred
David M. Lutken first at the festival in 2007 and later on tour in Europe and the United States. He produced the Edinburgh Festival Fringe presentation of
Dai (enough), a
one-woman show written and performed by
Iris Bahr, about characters in a
Tel Aviv cafe moments before a suicide bomber enters. He has also worked with American comedian and drag performer
Miss Coco Peru. In 2012, Lucas turned his attention to creating his own work, beginning with the play
Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women, with the assistance of dramaturge
Morgan Jenness, produced at the
Pleasance Theater during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2015, directed by Linda Ames Key. It received a Fringe First award, a High Commendation from Amnesty International for Freedom of Expression, and nominations for the Best of Edinburgh Award, the Holden Street Theaters Award, and the Feminist Fest Award. In 2015, the
American Repertory Theater sponsored a one-night reading of the script at
Harvard University and produced the play in 2017, with support from grants by the
National Endowment for the Arts. ==References==