Description
Book SynopsisLucas Baisch [ he / him ] is a Guatemalan-Mexican-American playwright and artist from San Francisco, whose work circulates within themes of systems, waste, and excess. His plays have been read and developed at The Goodman Theatre, The NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights' Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, Chicago Dramatists, Links Hall, SF Playground, etc. Full-length plays include:
REFRIGERATOR (First Floor Theatre),
On the Y-Axis (The Bushwick Starr Reading Series),
Dry Swallow (Brown University),
import speech_memory (Cutting Ball's Variety Pack Festival),
The Scavengers (DePaul University),
A Measure of Normalcy (Gloucester Stage Company), and co-writing on
The Arrow Cleans House (The Neo-Futurists).Lucas is a recipient of a 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award, the Kennedy Center's 2020 KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, and the 2021 Chesley/Bumbalo Playwriting Award. He was most recently awarded a 2021-22 Jerome Fellows
Trade ReviewPerhaps the most striking element of the production is Baisch’s prose itself. His characters, in their frequent monologues, do not so much speak as spew, hurling effervescent bits of language to the audience at a giddying rate. This effusion, when directed toward the audience, has the effect of making us feel implicated in the whole mess playing out on stage — which, of course, we are. * Brown Daily Herald *
Joking, begging, sneering, and mourning all at once—Baisch uses raw language in order to flesh out how we relate to one another within (around, against) oppressive structures. * BOMB Magazine *
Baisch’s voracious appetite produces work that is greater than the sum of its individual parts, more multiplication than addition. * New City Stage *
