Tom Dulack


Thomas Dulack is an American playwright, novelist, director, and English professor. His works include Incommunicado, Breaking Legs, and Solomon’s Child.

Novels and plays

His first professional play, Solomon's Child, was held over at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, before transferring to Broadway. It was then transferred to a French-language production and a television adaptation in Brussels, Belgium. His drama Incommunicado, about Ezra Pound, won the Kennedy Center Award for New American Plays.
Breaking Legs had its world premiere with Jack O'Brien directing at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in 1989. It was nominated as best new play by the San Diego Critics Circle. It ran for 447 performances at the Promenade Theatre in New York in 1990–91.
TitleDate of PublicationNovel/Play
IncommunicadoProduced-1989, Published-1998Play
Friends Like ThesePlay
Breaking LegsProduced-1991, Published-1992Play
Diminished CapacityPlay
Solomon's ChildPlay
Nudes DescendingPlay
The Misanthropes2014Novel-as-screenplay
Let Our Children Go!1976Novel
The Stigmata of Dr. Constantine1975Novel
Pork; or, The day I lost the masters1968Play
The Vantage Ground1970Novel
In Love With Shakespeare: A Literary Memoir2001Theatre memoir
The Road to Damascus2015Novel
The Vantage GroundNovel
13481999Play
Just DesertsPlay
End of the CenturyPlay
Shooting CrapsPlay
FrancisPlay
The Elephant and Mrs. RossettiPlay
My Country and The Road to DamascusPlay
Capital CrimesPlay
Bright WingsPlay
CatherinePlay
MiserereOctober 2024Novel
A Paradise LostPlay