Lucas Baisch is a playwright and artist from San Francisco. His plays have been read, developed, and produced at the Goodman Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center, First Floor Theater, 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, Gloucester Stage, SF Playground, etc.
He 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. He is currently a member of Page 73’s Interstate 73 writers group and Ars Nova’s Play Group. His plays have been published by Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama and Yale’s Theater Magazine. His play 404 Not Found is forthcoming with 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 ACRE, Elsewhere Museum, Millay Arts, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Goodman Theatre’s Playwrights Unit, and as a Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow. MFA: Brown University.