Lucas Baisch

Discipline: Playwriting

Based In: San Francisco, CA

Year at Millay: 2021

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, The Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA (2024); Alcove Climate Crisis Micro-Commission, Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York, NY (2024); Fellow, EDGE: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Fellowship, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (2024); Workspace Resident, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY (2023–2024); Play Group Resident Artist, Ars Nova, New York, NY (2023–2024); Member, Interstate 73 Writers Group, Page 73, New York, NY (2023); Finalist, Playwriting Fellowship, Page 73, New York, NY (2023); Finalist, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT (2022); Artist-in-Residence, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Taos, NM (2022); Fellow, Princess Grace Award & Fellowship, Princess Grace Foundation / New Dramatists, New York, NY (2021–2023); Fellow, Jerome Playwriting Fellowship, The Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, MN (2021–2022); Grant Recipient, Assets for Artists Capacity-Building Grant, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA (2021); Award Winner, Chesley/Bumbalo Playwriting Award, Robert Chesley-Victor Bumbalo Foundation, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Award Winner, KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC (2020); Award Winner, Steinberg Playwright Award, Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, New York, NY (2020); Artist-in-Residence, ACRE Projects, Steuben, WI / Chicago, IL (2019); Finalist, The Working Farm, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Brewster, NY (2019); Playwriting Fellow, Lambda Literary, Los Angeles, CA (2018); Artist-in-Residence, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC (2017); Playwright-in-Residence, Playwrights Unit, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL (2016–2017); Playwright-in-Residence, Gloucester Stage Company, Gloucester, MA (2015).

Lucas Baisch is a playwright 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, Ars Nova, the Magic Theatre, 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 (New Dramatists), a Jerome Fellowship (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, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, ACRE, Elsewhere Museum, Page 73, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Ars Nova’s Play Group, the Goodman Theatre’s Playwrights Unit, and as a Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow. He is pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at Stanford and he holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brown.