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Kirk Lynn

KIRK LYNN

  (1972 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Kirk Lynn's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         99 Breakups         Binge: Short Plays With All the Fixins!         Get Your War On         How Much Is Enough: Our Values In Question         Les Carabiniers         Lipstick Traces         Major Bang - Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Dirty Bomb         Match-Play         Method Gun, The         Pale Idiot         Wrestling Patient         Your Mother's Copy Of The Kama Sutra
99 Breakups

Synopsis:
People break up in different ways and in different circumstances

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts    

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Site specific

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Binge: Short Plays With All the Fixins!

Synopsis:
In these short plays food is a character, a metaphor, a Dramatic force of its own. Binding the plays together is a series of provocative videos that address the grotesque reality of today's food politics
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Michael John Garces, Kara Lee Corthron, Sibyl Kempson, Kirk Lynn, Bekah Brunstetter, Mando Alvarado

1st Produced:
Interart Theatre, NY     2008

Organisations:
the Shalimar

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short plays

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Get Your War On

Synopsis:
cusses and spits its way through six years of disappointment, shock, and awe at the sins of the current administration, exhuming images of pop culture and politics already lost in our collective short-term memory. With five actors, some microphones, and old-school overhead projectors, Get Your War On represents stunned and outraged Americans as they react to 9/11, the Bush administration, and its 'totally awesome' War on Terror.
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Notes:
an Adaptation of the comic strip by David Rees

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Rude Mechanicals

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation of the comic strip Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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How Much Is Enough: Our Values In Question

Synopsis:
Would you rather be smarter or taller? If you could have one extra hour today, what would you do with it? What's the most important thing you've ever done that you didn't want to do? How much change, just change, do you think is in the pockets and bags of the people in this room? How Much is enough explores notions of "value" - in all its poetic iterations - quantitatively through our relations to money and qualitatively by asking what we hold dear. the piece itself is built entirely out of questions posed by three performers to audience members, to each other, to the universe, and then some, about how we live our lives, what plans we've made for the future and what advice we can offer one another as we attempt to create lives of value. equal parts town hall meeting, party, guide for the perplexed. . .and then some, How Much is enough gathers its greatest theatricality from the most interesting people in the theatre - those who usually sit in the dark.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
author: Kirk Lynn; Created By: Kirk Lynn And Melanie Joseph

1st Produced:
St. Ann's Warehouse, NY     03 Nov 2011

Organisations:
the Foundry Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Les Carabiniers

Synopsis:
This evening of new short plays is inspired by Susan Sontag's book On Photography. the producers describe it as illuminating "the complexities and questions that photography raises. From grieving parents left with only a photo of their deceased son to a cheeky calendar photo shoot, the collection of short plays looks at the medium from a variety of angles and offers searing, heartfelt and even funny riffs on Sontag's commentary. the evening serves as a modern call and response between cultural criticism and performing Arts."
nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of A Thousand Words: Seven Short Plays On Photography

1st Produced:
Interart Annex, NY     2006

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Genre:
Short Play One act

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Lipstick Traces

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on the book "Lipstick Traces - the Secret History of the 20th Century" by Greil Marcus

1st Produced:
The Foundry Theater, New York     2001

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Major Bang - Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Dirty Bomb

Synopsis:
a Boy Scout builds a nuclear reactor in his parents garage to get his Scout Badge in atomic energy. Major Bang the neurotic Scout-Master. and Lenny Bruce back from the dead.

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1st Produced:
The Foundry Theater, New York     2006

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Genre:
Black comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Match-Play

Synopsis:
Based on the notebooks of theatre artist Richard Foreman

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     2005

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1st Published:
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Play/Drama

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Method Gun, The

Synopsis:
austin, Texas-based ensemble Rude Mechs returns to New York and makes its Dance theater Workshop debut with the New York premiere of the Method Gun, a piece exploring the life and techniques of StElla Burden, an apocryphal actor-training guru of the '60s and '70s. Ms. Burden's training technique, the approach - often referred to as "the most dangerous acting technique in the world" - fused Western acting methods with risk-based rituals in order to infuse even the smallest role with sex, death, and violence. Physically visceral and visually haunting, the Method Gun is a play about the ecstasy and excesses of performing, the dangers of public intimacy, and the incompatibility of truth on stage and sanity in real life. the Method Gun re-enacts the final months of her company's rehearsals for their nine-years-in-the-making production of a Streetcar Named Desire.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011     02 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Rude Mechs

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Piece

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Pale Idiot

Synopsis:
there is an Idiot Problem. the Health Inspector is coming to investigate and eradicate. a fast-paced game of words and wit, this sneaky dark comedy is an allegorical examination of the fear and hatred inspired by "the Other" in our midst.

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Organisations:
Frozen No Salt Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Performance art, 90 min

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Wrestling Patient

Synopsis:
the story of etty Hillesum a young Jewish woman in wartime amsterdam. With the help of a teacher she takes up the new science of psychology and the use of therapeutic wrestling matches

Notes:
Written by Kirk Lynn, Anne Gottleib And Katie Pearl

1st Produced:
Center For The Arts, Boston     27 Mar 2009

Organisations:
Speakeasy Stage Company

1st Published:
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Drama

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Your Mother's Copy Of The Kama Sutra

Synopsis:
Carla agrees to marry Reggie on one condition: to break down any walls between them, they'll reenact their individual sexual histories with one another, good and bad, for better or worse. Years later, these stories bring unexpected hope to their household, now forced to confront those barriers a second time. Kirk Lynn's tough-love comedy navigates the boundaries of intimacy, finding startling empathy in the story of a Father hell-bent on saving his family.

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizons Peter J Sharp
416 West 42nd Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10036     28 Mar 2014

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Play/Drama

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