Lucas Kavner is a screenwriter, actor and playwright from Plano, Texas. He’s currently writing film and TV projects for Sony Animation, Jersey Films, Warner Bros, Fruit Tree, Apple TV+ and Universal, and previously developed shows with FX, Lionsgate, Red Hour Films, Party Over Here, Shondaland and others. He recently co-wrote Triplets for Danny Devito, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ivan Reitman and joined the cast for the final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.  

He’s the author of the plays Fish Eye (New York Magazine’s Best Theatre of the Year, Colt Coeur), Carnival Kids (New York Times Critics Pick, Lesser America), Clickshare (ACT), The Gum Play (EST/Sloan Foundation grant), and Barnes & Noble: Frisco, TX (Ars Nova). His plays are published by Samuel French/Concord and have been performed around the country and in the UK.

He was a a staff writer and frequent performer on The Jim Jefferies Show for Comedy Central, where he was nominated for a WGA Award. In a previous life he was a feature reporter for The Huffington Post where he covered the intersection of science and culture and interviewed luminaries from Ang Lee to John Prine to Dave Coulier. Other writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Vulture, The Believer and The New Yorker.

Other acting credits include High Potential (ABC), Orange is the New Black (Netflix), pilots for Comedy Central and ABC and the cult indie horror, I Blame Society. He created and starred in the first animated VR show and his original comedy videos have been viewed millions of times and featured on the BBC, MSNBC and NPR.

As a theater/theatre actor: Williamstown, The Kennedy Center, Ars Nova, Playwrights Horizons, Naked Angels, and the award-winning production of The Blue Flower at The American Repertory Theater. He performed weekly for many years at the Peoples Improv Theater in New York and UCB Theater in LA and co-starred in the world premiere of John Mellencamp and Stephen King’s Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County. One time John Mellencamp gave him a note to “pivot like Marlon Brando” and he still doesn’t know what that means.

He lives in LA with his family and various clothes/belongings.