Anne Marilyn Lucas's hilarious farce PARTY? that previewed at MLT in Boston will be produced by THE THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY in NYC next spring. PARTY? has had fabulous reviews taking on marriage and narcissism in our culture head on with humor. https://marbleheadbeacon.com/playwright-lucass-debut-comedy-party-shines RECOVERY opened on Oct. 11 2018 at THE THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY and was submitted for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. It has won 3 Mass Cultural Council Grants. Stephan Morrow of the Great American Play Series directed Karen Lynn Gorney and Brian Childers in the NYC production. Bridget Kathleen O'Leary directed the Boston area production in 2019. RECOVERY was translated into Greek and produced by Facta Non Verba Theatre in Greece in March 2020. THE OPEN FIST THEATRE CO. plans an LA production the fall of 2022. This play takes a new look at the addiction crisis as it asks "How do the mothers of addicts recover?" It is part of the LET'S GIVE IT UP FOUNDATION'S offerings for drug education.
Anne's play FROM SILENCE was produced at THE THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY in November 2016, to sold houses and standing ovations. Broadway Box recommended it along side Hamilton, as one of 6 plays audiences should see after the election. FROM SILENCE was produced in the Boston area at MLT Oct. 2017, staged by director Arin Arbus at THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE April 2018, the Glouscester Stage featured it in their Never Dark Series 2019 and produced by Cottey College in 2020.
SAY THE NAME, a Holocaust survivor’s memoir, was staged at Harvard University and used as a text in the Divinity School. ‘Dearest Dove’, ‘Legacy of the Hanging Judge’, and ‘Spirits of the Gables’ are one act historical dramas that have been produced at The House of the Seven Gables annually since their creation in 2001. Other plays and film scripts available.
Anne has built a body of work as a playwright from a career in the theatre. She has directed for over 30 yrs. She holds an MFA from BU and 2nd MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen from Lesley University and has been a professor at Salem State University.
Anne’s biographical musicals:BROADWAY LEGENDS, B'WAY DIVAS, THE WORLD OF KNADER AND EBB, BEST OF BROADWAY, GERSHWIN/PORTER WHO COULD ASK FOR ANYTHING MORE, IRVING BERLIN LOVES AMERICA, and RICHARD RODGERS, THE SOUND OF HIS MUSIC were produced by The Marblehead Little Theatre to sold out houses.
“Accidental Death” and "My Husband"s Keeper have been produced by the Boston Theatre Marathon, The Theatre of Light NYC,Salem Theater Company and the Firehouse Theatre. “Swami” was produced at The Leading Edge Play Festival,read at Polaris North in NYC and Lesley University. “Lies My Mother Told Me” was work-shopped at Wellesley College, Our Voices Festival. Her ten minute plays have won places in THE THEATRE FOR THE NEW CITY'S LES FESTIVAL 5 years in a row.
Anne is a member of the Dramatists Guild as well as Equity, SAG & AFTRA.