Lucas Baisch is a playwright and artist from San Francisco. His plays have been read and developed at the Goodman Theatre, The Playwrights' Center, The NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights' Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, The Mercury Store, Cutting Ball Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, The Neo-Futurists, Chicago Dramatists, Links Hall, SF Playground, etc.

Full-length plays include: REFRIGERATOR (First Floor Theater), On the Y-Axis (The Bushwick Starr Reading Series), Dry Swallow (Brown University), 404 Not Found (2022 O'Neill NPC Finalist), import speech_memory (Cutting Ball’s Variety Pack Festival), The Scavengers (DePaul University), A Measure of Normalcy (Gloucester Stage), and co-writing on The Arrow Cleans House (The Neo-Futurists).

Lucas is a recipient of a Steinberg Playwright Award, the Princess Grace Award in Playwriting, a Jerome Fellowship from The Playwrights' Center, the Kennedy Center's KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, and the Chesley/Bumbalo Playwriting Award. Lucas has taught writing at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, Pratt Institute, Macalester College, The Playwrights' Center, and through the Chicago Public Schools. His plays have been published by Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama, Yale’s Theater Magazine, and 53rd State Press.

Outside of writing for theatre, his artwork has been presented at Elsewhere Museum, the Electronic Literature Organization, gallery no one, and the RISD Museum. He has held residencies through the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Millay Arts, ACRE, Elsewhere Museum, Page 73 Productions, Ars Nova's Play Group, the LMCC Workspace Residency, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Goodman Theatre's Playwrights Unit, and as a Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow. Lucas holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University and is a PhD student in Performance Studies at Stanford.

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