- 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.
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