Anecdotes

At eight months he was adopted by a Pennsylvania couple.

Was abandoned in a car in Atlanta, Georgia the day he was born.

Nominated for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Prelude to a Kiss".

Was nominated for Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as author of Best Play nominee "Prelude to a Kiss" and again in 2005 for writing the book for "Light in the Piazza."

Though primarily known as a writer (and more recently, director), he started out as an actor, in the chorus of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd". While in "ST", he wrote a musical ("Marry Me a Little") utilizing Sondheim's songs, in which Lucas co-starred. The legendary Sondheim frankly told him he should be a writer instead of a performer, and Lucas has gone on to become one of the most prolific and acclaimed writers of his generation.

Adam Guettel and his musical, "The Light in the Piazza" at the Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 2012 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Musical Production.