Lucas Foss

Lucas won the best comedy award for his play “Little Voices” in the 2013 Playwrights Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Awards. Lucas has been a member of the PGC since 2002. He also won the Special Merit Award for his play “Little Voices” in the 1999 Theatre BC’s Canadian National Playwriting Competition. He continues to perform his one-person show to the delight of audiences. His next performance will be in October 2014 at the Presentation House in North Vancouver. (Little Voices is directed by Scott Swan) The October 2014 performance will be audio taped for publishing by Post Hypnotic Press Audio Books.

To read play and reviews and see video clip:

go to http://www.singlelane.com/proplay/voices.html

Lucas’s second play “The Wall” was selected as one of the five finalists in the 2003 Theatre BC’s Canadian National Playwriting Competition. Lucas received a paid educational leave from Capilano University (Aug 2011-July 2012) to write a disability awareness play for post-secondary students. “Re-Calculating” has been performed numerous times at community colleges in the Lower Mainland and most recently at Thompson River University in Kamloops March 29/30 2014. In September 2013 Lucas and Reel Wheels entered an agreement to adapt Re-Calculating for Professional Theatre. The debut run was January 22-24 2015, to full houses, at the CBC Studio Theatre in Vancouver.

Of special commitment was his on-going production of the one-man show “The Fever” by Wallace Shawn – 1997-2000. Lucas has worked with adults with disabilities in various capacities since 1976. From 1991-2013 he held a faculty position as a Disability Services Advisor at Capilano University. Lucas is also a
Registered Clinical Counsellor (#824) with an M.A. in Counselling Psychology and has a private therapy practice.

BIO
I am more of a actor than a playwright but I have written a few plays, the first of which was Little Voices. I was awarded best comedy for “Little Voices” in the 2013 Playwrights Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Awards. I have been a member of the PGC since 2002.
I was also given the Special Merit Award for the earlier 40-minute version of “Little Voices” by Theatre BC’s Canadian National Playwriting Competition. I have written 4 or 5 other plays that I was too lazy to finish. The exception to this was when I received a paid educational leave from Capilano University (Aug 2011-July 2012) to write a disability awareness play for post-secondary students. “Re-Calculating” I wrote and directed this play for an actor with quadriplegia and it has been performed numerous times at community colleges in the Lower Mainland and also at Thompson River University in Kamloops. I then entered an agreement to adapt Re-Calculating for Professional Theatre. The debut run was January 22-24 2015, to full houses, at the CBC Studio Theatre in Vancouver. I preferred the original version.  I think the most brilliant one person show I of which I am aware is “The Fever” by Wallace Shawn which I performed from 1997-2000.
Lucas has worked with adults with disabilities in various capacities since 1976. From 1991-2013 he held a faculty position as a Disability Services Advisor at Capilano University (retired). Lucas was also a Registered Clinical Counsellor (retired) with an M.A. in Counselling Psychology and had a private therapy practice (1994-2015).