Laurence Luckinbill is an actor and writer known for his extensive Off-Broadway and Broadway career and one man shows. He began acting in national tours before moving to New York and starring in OEDIPUS REX (1959). Luckinbill met Mart Crowley at Catholic University and was later asked to perform in the original Off-Off Broadway cast of THE BOYS IN THE BAND (1968), moving with the production to their Off-Broadway location at Theater Four and as well as starring in the 1970 film. 

Luckinbill was also in the original production of THE FANTASTICKS (1960), at the Sullivan Street Playhouse. He understudied  El Gallo, Boy’s Father, Girl’s Father and played the ‘sweep-up’ guy, cleaning up the mess scattered by the ‘spangles’ guy!  He painted the lobby and lavatories purple for which Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt wrote him a song: “Hip, hip, Hooray for Larry/Hip, hip Hooray and Glory/He painted the ladies’ lavatory!”

Luckinbill’s other Off-Broadway credits include: GALILEO (1965), HORSEMAN, PASS BY (1969), THE MEMORY BANK (1970), WHAT THE BUTLER SAW (1970), A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER (1977), UNFINISHED STORIES (1994), A FAIR COUNTRY (1996), FIREBUGS (2002), and HEMINGWAY (2004).

He directed 17 BOXES, a surreal play by Rafael Bunuel, son of Luis Bunuel at La Mama E.T.C.  One-Man Shows Luckinbill has written include: CLARENCE DARROW TONIGHT!  (1999) at Ensemble Studio Theatre, TEDDY TONIGHT (2002), and  HEMINGWAY (2004) at The Abingdon Theatre, and LYNDON (1991) at The Houseman Theater, adapted for the stage from the television script [in which Luckinbill also performed] originally written by James Prideaux. Recently his newest play (2012) THE ABRAHAM AND LARRY SHOW-ALL THE BIBLE YOU WANT-GENESIS TO JESUS premiered at The Paley Center, New York, and at the Palm Spring’s Cultural Center’s Camelot Theater.

Luckinbill was born in Depression-era Arkansas and attended the University of Arkansas, then the Catholic University of America. His Broadway credits include Beekman Place, Cabaret, Chapter Two, Dancing in the End Zone, Past Tense, Poor Murderer, and The Shadow Box (Tony Nomination). He received a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for The Memory Bank, a Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association and a Dramatist’s Guild Award Nomination for Clarence Darrow Tonight. Luckinbill is well known for his role as Sybok in the 1989 film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier as well as his performance in Cocktail. He has appeared in television episodes of “Law & Order,” “The Mating Season,” “Murder, She Wrote,” and his own ABC and series “The Delphi Bureau.”   Other television credits include The 5:48 (PBS, Director, James Ivory) and, ”Lyndon” which won an Emmy Nomination (PBS). “Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie,” won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special for the ‘TV Special’ category,  produced by Lucie Arnaz and Luckinbill, directed by Arnaz, with narrative story written by Luckinbill.