Lucas Kavner

Lucas Kavner is a writer, performer and comedy person from Plano, TX. He recently created and starred in Water Bear, the very first animated VR series, and was nominated for a WGA Award for his work as a writer on The Jim Jefferies Show on Comedy Central, which is currently in its third season. Onscreen he’s been seen in or written for projects with ESPN, VH1, Comedy Central, ABC, Dreamworks TV, Netflix and others, and he is currently developing pilots with FX and Unique Features. His original comedy videos have been viewed millions of times online and featured on the BBC, MSNBC, and NPR and online in The New York Times, Huffpost, Time, Vanity Fair and The Atlantic, among other places.

He’s the author of the plays Fish Eye (Time Out Critic’s Pick, included in New York Magazine’s Best Theatre of the Year), Carnival Kids (NY Times Critics Pick, recently optioned for film), Clickshare (ACT fall 2017), The Gum Play (Sloan Foundation grant, Ensemble Studio Theatre), and Barnes & Noble: Frisco, Texas (Ars Nova). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Slate, McSweeney’s, The Believer and The New Yorker, among others, and he spent three years as a reporter at The Huffington Post.

A longtime performer at the PIT in New York City, he currently performs with Baby Wants Candy at the UCB Theatre in LA