Elizabeth Lucas is a director, producer, writer & dramaturg.
Her company, GLASS BUBBLE PRODUCTIONS LLC, is dedicated to developing musically driven stories in whatever media best suits them.
Professional Affiliations:
New York Women in Film & Television
Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers
League of Professional Theatre Women
Commercial Theatre Institute 14-Week Program
Berlin Film Festival Talent Campus
Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab 1998
Producer Development Program of the League of American Theatres
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CLEAR BLUE TUESDAY
a rock movie musical
Eleven New Yorkers change course after catastrophic events force them to examine the difference between what they pursue and what makes them happy
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Starring:
Asa Somers
Becca Ayers
Brother Love
Cassandra Kubinski
Erich R Hager
Erin Hill
Greg Naughton
Janice L. O'Dell
Jeremy Schonfeld
Julie Danao-Salkin
Vedant Gokhale
Featuring:
James Naughton,
Julia Murney,
Kelli O'Hara
Chris Anderson,
Chris Orbach,
Christian Cambell
Christopher J Hanke,
Hollis Scarborough
Marsha Lawson,
Mary Ellen Ashley,
Ramona Keller
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RED HOOK
a scavenger hunt thriller
Agoraphobic freshman in New York City must join a scavenger hunt to save her boyfriend from a murderous gamemaster
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Featuring: Terrence Mann
Christina Brucato
Tate Ellington
Alex Brightman
Brian Smith
Bryan Fenkart
Debargo Sanyal
Frankie Shaw
Hollis Scarborough
Jamal Patterson
Jessica Aiken
Karissa Staples
Karla Mosley
Kelli Barrett
Shonn Wiley
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FADE TO WHITE
A New York Sci Fi Fantasy
Unforeseen consequences of lost love
echo tragically across generations
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Director: Elizabeth Lucas
Writers: Sammy Buck, Alex Goldberg, Erin Hill
Editor: Alexander Hammer
Producers: Elizabeth Lucas, Brad Rubenstein, Julie Miller
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| Current Stage Work |
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WILD ABOUT HARRY
New York Musical Theatre Festival 2008
Written by Susan DiLallo
Directed by Elizabeth Lucas
Choreographed by Joshua Bergasse, Daryl Gray,
Linda Goodrich, Jeff Shade and Shea Sullivan
An all-danced riff on Leona Helmsley....the Queen of Mean
This unique, danced-through musical, created especially for NYMF '08 and choreographed by five of today's most talented young choreographers, begins where the tabloids left off. A completely fresh look at Leona Helmsley, one of NYC's most colorful characters, and the one man who loved her, the many others who did not, and her dog...who inherited 12 million bucks.
Friday, Sep 19th at 8:00 pm
Saturday, Sep 20th at 2:00 pm
Saturday, Sep 20th at 8:00 pm
Sunday, Sep 21st at 4:00 pm
Sunday, Sep 28th at 7:30 pm
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
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SUMMER SHORTS (Series B) - PLAISIR d'AMOUR
Running August 6-August 28
59E59, NYC
A Terrence McNally/Skip Kennon theatrical premiere featuring Jonathan C. Kaplan (Tony Nominee FALSETTOS), Stephanie D’Abruzzo (Tony Nominee AVENUE Q), Rita Harvey (FIDDLER revival) and Neal Mayer (LES MIZ). PLAISIR D'AMOUR is part of Summer Shorts, a series of short plays. We're in evening B.
SYNOPSIS: Ruth and Sam meet thirty years ago at a Carnegie Hall lieder recital and begin an ever accelerating ride through love, joy, pain and eventual compromise.
"...the prize goes, no contest, to "Plaisir D'Amour," mostly because of the amazing synchronization of all its disparate elements."
- Sam Thielman, Variety
"Plaisir D'Amour," starring Tony nominees Stephanie D'Abruzzo ("Avenue Q") and Jonathan C. Kaplan ("Falset-
tos"), is the undisputed highlight"
- Frank Scheck, New York Post
"Elizabeth Lucas' fluid direction allows the action to unfold gracefully."
- David Barbour, Lighting & Sound America
"as directed by Elizabeth Lucas, the musical proves to be pertinent to our own lives, and soars with the sublime acting of its two principals."
- Deirdre Donovan, Curtain Up
"Of course, the real reason to see either series is for...Terrance McNally and Skip Kennon's mini-musical, Plaisir D'Amour (Series B)...It's the most polished of the eight plays, with outstanding performances from Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Jonathan C. Kaplan as they chronicle a relationship from the desperate single life to the troubled married life and eventually, with their own children now married, to the comfortable afterglow of a once passionate life. Far too many one-acts, even decent ones, come across as ultimately empty etudes, but this musically simplistic piece does for a transient comedy what Prelude & Liebestod did for drama."
- Aaron Riccio, Theater Talk
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RAGTIME
Running July 24-August 23
Cape Rep in Brewster, MA
At the turn of the 20th the lives of an upper class white anglo-saxon family, a Jewish immigrant and his young daughter, and black musician, his love, and their newborn son are brushed by the icons of the day: Houdini, Emma Goldman, J P Morgan, Henry Ford, Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White. They are all intertwined in an unforgettable story about the great themes of the American experience: equality, freedom, race, and economic opportunity.
"the Cape Rep Theatre production, under the masterful direction of Elizabeth Lucas, beautifully captures the spirit and essence of the show...Lucas works magic with this ensemble production.
Lucas moves her cast with great skill as time, place and focus fluidly change from New Rochelle to the Lower East Side, from train station to dock, from Harlem to Union Square, from Atlantic City to J.P.
Morgan's library. The ensemble work is excellent."
- Debbie Forman, Cape Cod Times
"Lucas then takes a cast of 25 characters played by 19 actors with over 30 musical numbers, and creates an intense yet intimate show. Bring a tissue."
- Amy Tagliaferri, Cape Cod Chronicle
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CARNEGIE HALL
Holidays Around the World
Young People's Chorus of New York City
In a spirited celebration of the season, the award-winning Young People’s Chorus of New York City raise their voices in holiday songs from many cultures and traditions around the world.
Staged Concert
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THE LAST STARFIGHTER
New York Musical Theatre Festival - September 2007
See a video excerpt here
From JONATHAN BETUEL’s screenplay for the beloved 1980s sci-fi film comes the cosmically entertaining romantic musical fantasy THE LAST STARFIGHTER. It’s Spring 1983 in a Sierra Nevada trailer park. High school senior Alex Rogan’s hardworking, unrewarded life takes an unexpected turn when he breaks a video game record and is spirited away by the game’s inventor, the alien huckster Centauri, to fight for the Star League in a faraway galaxy. Centauri leaves behind Beta, a body double droid of Alex, to cover Alex’s absence with his mother, brother and beloved girlfriend Maggie while Alex is off fighting the evil Zur and the Ko-dan Armada. Beta’s comic mishaps on Earth with Maggie and the neighbors in the trailer park, and shape-shifting alien assassins in pursuit of Alex on his home turf, alternate with Alex’s heroic starfighter achievements. Alex must reach inside himself to discover his true potential – the universe and his life depend on it!
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THE LEGEND OF STAGECOACH MARY
The Legend of Stagecoach Mary, a new musical by Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore, is the raucous, bluegrass-infused tale of an honest-to-goodness, real American hero. But unlike your grandfather’s history text, this show depicts an America usually hidden somewhere behind stories of dead white guys, a world where Mary, a pistol-packing, cigar-chomping ex-slave finds adventure, freedom and a pack of square-dancing, frontier nuns in the truly wild, Wild West.
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FAMILYMUSIK
Elizabeth directed a FamilyMusik concert for the Bank of America Celebrity Series with composer Rob Kapilow on March 25 in Boston, MA.
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