Elizabeth Lucas

Elizabeth Lucas develops new work for stage and screen. She is a Founding Producer of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, where she has premiered a new musical every year, including "Wild About Harry" (a dance piece about Leona Helmsley), "The Last Starfighter" (based on the movie), and "Captain Gravy's Wavy Navy" (being developed for television). Elizabeth is making her feature directing debut with three genre movies about New York City, her rock movie musical, Clear Blue Tuesday (2009), her teen thriller, Red Hook (2009), and her Sci-fi Fade to White (2009). In acknowledgment of the unique nature of Elizabeth's first movie musical, Isabella Rico (2002), the Santa Monica Film Festival created a Musical Short category and granted her a Special Achievement Award. Elizabeth produced, directed, and wrote the screenplay for the original fifteen-minute musical film, which won a Director Award from the Zoie Film Festival. The film has played over thirty festivals since September 2002, including the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Palm Beach Film Festival, the Raindance International Film Festival in London and the San Diego Latino Film Festival. Among her other theatre credits, Elizabeth's Midwest premiere of Hello Again won two After Dark Awards and was recommended for a Jefferson Award, and her productions of Footloose and Jekyll & Hyde received rave reviews at Trump Plaza in Atlantic City. She has directed countless readings and workshops. Favorite stage directing credits include Nine, Kiss Of The Spider Woman and the Marta Kauffman/David Crane/Michael Skloff-written Rapunzel. Elizabeth has assistant directed over 30 musicals, plays and operas with Tony-Winning director Walter Bobbie, international opera director Rhoda Levine, multi-award winning author, actor and director Simon Callow, Paper Mill Playhouse Artistic Director Mark Hoebee and many others. In addition to the New York Musical Theatre Festival, Elizabeth also founded the Door County Opera and the Chicago Directors' Forum and assistant produced the concert musical Galas for two seasons of the Chicago Humanities Festival. She has been a featured writer for Spunk Magazine, Great Lakes Stages and Stage Directions magazines. Elizabeth is a member of New York Women in Film & Television, the League of Theatre Women, the 2004 Berlin Film Festival Talent Campus, the 2004 Commercial Theatre Institute 14-Week Program, the League of American Theatres Producer Development Program and the 1998 Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, all exclusive programs for emerging producers & directors. Elizabeth served on the Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation Artists Action Committee. She received her Bachelor of Music in Lyric Theatre from Northwestern University and a Film Certificate from New York University.