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Lynne S Brandon

LYNNE S BRANDON

  
Nationality:    USA
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MFA in Playwriting, Smith College, 2008. Trained with Sarah Ruhl, James Lecesne, arthur Giron, Sinan unel, Shirley Kaplan, Kate aspengren. "Bare Chested" monologue, SaS PLaYFeST, 2006. She Doth Protest, Northampton (Ma) Playwrights Lab, 2006. Bare Chested staged-reading, Smith College, 2007. Isosceles, Festival of One act Plays, Smith College, 2008, and the Gecko in Winter Festival and SLaMBoston! in 2010. "Three Scenes" from the Randomness of Nature, Playwrights Platform Summer Festival, 2009. at the Line staged-reading, another Country Productions, November 2010. Member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., and International Centre for Women Playwrights.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         At the Line         Bare Chested         Isosceles         Isosceles, by LYNNE S. BRANDON. Kitchener City Hall Council Chambers, Kitchener, ON, CAN. Mar 07, 2015. Six plays to be read, based on the theme of the 365 Women a Year: A Playwriting Project and organized by Paddy Gillard-Bentley of Flushink Productions. http://www.flushink.net         Mad Cow         Sexism in theatre         Tops

At the Line

Synopsis:
When was the last time you couldn't help falling in love with "the wrong person?" Coach Cheyenne Pomeroy, a Black lesbian basketball coach with an outstanding reputation, recruits players nationally to play for Carolina State. Newcomer Maureen "Mo" Deighton vies with almeida Marcoz for the prized point guard position; but when almeida reveals her crush on "Coach", they become close friends. Caroline, an assistant coach, pushes Cheyenne to transform their long friendship to a sexual relationship but Pomeroy insists "only for fun." When Coach resists the pressure for more, jilted Caroline reports an alleged "impropriety" with a former athlete to the university administration. In response to slanted national reporting, Pomeroy's athletes rally to her defense. Coach chooses to resign rather than jeopardize the futures of her students and staff, and take her chances with a european professional team. But she can't forget almeida.

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Specific casting: 3 African-American women, 30s; 1 Latina, late teens; 1 white woman, late teens; 1 white male, 40s; 1 white woman, late 20s; 3-6 minor parts, can be doubled. Three selected scenes were produced As A short play entitled "the Randomness of Nature," At Playwrights Platform Summer Festival, 2009. the lead Actor was voted Best Female Actor in the week's program.

1st Produced:
Stage Reading, Factory Theatre, Boston, Ma    Nov 2010

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Genre:
Drama - full-length

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Male:  1            Female:  6            Other:  3-6 minor parts, can be doubled

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Bare Chested

Synopsis:
Bare Chested takes place in the nation where "fear of queers is in the milk". Butch Stacy Rosen gets cancer, loses a breast she frequently despised, and almost loses her high femme girlfriend Leah. as chemotherapy and radiation sap Stacy's emotional and sexual power, the couple fights to stay together while Stacy adjusts to her new body. Stacy's inner conflicts and eventual reconciliation take place through the on-stage appearance of her feisty psychic Double.

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1st Produced:
Smith College, Northampton Ma Staged-Reading 2007    May 2007

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MFA thesis, Smith College   -

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Genre:
Drama, full-length

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  11            Other:  multiple doubling, varying ages

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Isosceles

Synopsis:
By 1910, Gertrude Stein and alice B. Toklas were living at 27 rue de Fleurus in Paris, entertaining, among others, Pablo Picasso. the play presents a queering of "the erotic Triangle", which in traditional philosophy defines the power and sexual dynamics of two men contesting for the favors of a woman. In Isosceles, a butch dyke (Gert) and her femme partner (alice) spend an evening with a noted heterosexual womanizer (Pablo). the artists' involvement with the Cubist movement (Stein's Tender Buttons, Picasso's "absinthe") informs the famous trio's word play. alice uses all the power available to her and, by the end of the play, is the focus of the "masculine" attention, achieving the triangle's dominant angle.

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Runs Approximately 12 minutes

1st Produced:
Theatre 14, Smith College, Northampton Ma    May 2008

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Genre:
Drama - short play

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Isosceles, by LYNNE S. BRANDON. Kitchener City Hall Council Chambers, Kitchener, ON, CAN. Mar 07, 2015. Six plays to be read, based on the theme of the 365 Women a Year: A Playwriting Project and organized by Paddy Gillard-Bentley of Flushink Productions. http://www.flushink.net

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Mad Cow

Synopsis:
Cable TV news-and-views star, Lainie David, is stretched between her New York job and her partner, Roxanne, living upstate. Newly-elected Senator, Will Browner, plants a rumor about Lainie to re-energize his constituent base. Lainie's long hours at the studio push Roxanne to the breaking (up) point, when what Lainie needs is more support than ever. Her fabulous assistant, Renee, loves her job - and Lainie. Browner has big bucks behind him, but the opposition has its own web of shadowy players. the Radical Right, the Liberal Left, Obama, health care reform and the Great Recession are the backdrop for the personal politics of two of America's media darlings. What price, success?

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1st Produced:
Staged-Reading At Center On Halstead    2012

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Genre:
Drama - full-length

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Sexism in theatre

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1st Produced:
Cherry Lane theatre
38 Commerce Street, New York, NY 10014    24 Sep 2012

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Guerrilla Girls on Tour

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Genre:
short monologue

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tops

Synopsis:
Dating in the 21st century: pansexual, casual, straightforward, capture or be captured, on to the next adventure. Five adults of various genders and persuasions pursue happiness, or so they tell themselves, in evolving pairs of friends and lovers: X and Y are friends. Y gets Z to help pursue Mirov. Z pursues Y. Waitstaff pursues Z. Waitstaff gets X. Mirov gets Y. Y isn't sure about Z. Y isn't sure about Mirov. X is sure about Waitstaff. Z pursues Y. Waitstaff pursues Z. Mirov dumps Y. Y wants Z. Waitstaff wants Y, after X. Z would rather have Y. Who comes out on top?

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Tops Achieved the status of semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill theatre Center's 2012 National Playwrights Conference.

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Genre:
Drama - full-length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  all actors in 20s-30s.

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