Harry Kondoleon is the author of the novels Diary of a Lost Boy and The Whore of Tiampuan, and a collection of poems, The Death of Understanding. His plays include Zero Positive (NY premiere at The Public Theatre), Anteroom (New York Drama Critics’ Circle nomination), Christmas on Mars (Playwright’s Horizons), Linda Her and The Fairy Garden (Second Stage), The Vampires (Empty Space in Seattle, Astor Place Theatre), Slacks and Tops (MTC), The Cote D’Azure Triangle (Ensemble Studio Theatre), The Brides (Lenox Art Centre/Music Theatre Group), Rococo (Yale Repertory Theatre), Play Yourself (Virginia Stage Company), The Poets’ Corner (Theatre for a New City), Love Diatribe (premiered at Circle Rep). His numerous honors and awards include: Fulbrights, Rockefeller, Drama Logue, Oppenheimer and Obie Awards. Mr. Kondoleon graduated from Hamilton College and the Yale School of Drama. Mr. Kondoleon died in 1994 at the age of 39 of complications from AIDS.
Craig Lucas recently directed This Thing of Darkness, which he co-authored with David Schulner, at the Atlantic Theater Company. Last year he received an Obie for his direction of Harry Kondoleon’s Saved or Destroyed at the Rattlestick Theater. This fall he is directing Joe Orton’s Loot at the Intiman Theater in Seattle where he has been appointed Associate Artistic Director. He is the author of many plays and movies including The Dying Gaul, Stranger, God’s Heart, Prelude to a Kiss, Blue Window, Reckless, Missing Persons, Longtime Companion, and Alan Rudolph’s new film, Secret Lives of Dentists. His most recent play, The Singing Forest, was commissioned by A Contemporary Theater in Seattle.