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Lynn Snyder

LYNN SNYDER  

 Nationality:    USA
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Lynn Snyder's full-length plays include political dramas: CAMPAIGN STRATEGY and WHITSON COUNTRY; social relations serio-comedy, LOVERS AND OTHER FURNISHINGS; social issues drama, CONDO; social relations drama, ZING ZANG; social issues comedy, OLDER THAN DEAD; social issues farce, THE AMERICAN WAY. Productions of short plays include AIR POCKETS: Love Creek Productions in New York City, Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Co. in San Francisco, Teatro del Naville in Bologna; JUNK MAIL: Manhattan Theatre Source in New York City, Another Country Productions in Boston and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; DON'T LOOK: Turtle Shell Productions in New York City and Theatre Inspirato in Toronto; THE POLYNESIAN LOUNGE: Ross Valley Players in Ross, CA and Camino Real Playhouse in San Juan Capistrano, CA; A SENSE OF HUMOUR: Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Co., in San Francisco; GYPSY, a monologue: Pegasus Theatre Co. in Monte Rio, CA. Before she started writing plays, Lynn Snyder was a newspaper reporter in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and London and a publicity and speech writer in Los Angeles for candidates in state and local political races. She has received playwriting fellowships and grants from the Jerome Foundation, the University of Massachusetts, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation. Lynn grew up in Akron, Ohio and holds a bachelor's degree in political science and English literature from the University of Michigan. She lives in Berkeley with her partner, Leo Ganz, a Stanford psychology professor.

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

 Air Pockets         American Way, The         Campaign Strategy         Condo         Lovers and Other Furnishings         Older Than Dead         Whitson Country         Zing Zang

Air Pockets

Synopsis:
Claire and Eli meet on a plane. She has left her husband with all their savings after discovering that he was having an affair with their son's girlfriend. Eli has been secretly visiting his daughter, secretly.

Notes:
2002: Three Wise Monkeys Theatre, San Francisco; 2003: Teatro del Navile, Bologna, Italy

1st Produced:
NYC    1987

Organisations:
Love Creek Productions

1st Published:
Three Wise Monkeys press, 2004   -

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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American Way, The

Synopsis:
It is 1957. Mobster, JIMMY DIONDO, is going to take over Community Crusade, a charity organization. Rival mobster, MICKEY LAVITO, bets that JIMMY will fail and sets out to win his bet. He tries to convince ANGEL, Community Crusade executive secretary, to seduce JIMMY and sabotage his new charity organization, Royal Flush. Trying to foil this plan is AMBROSE, saved from suicide by falling in love with ANGEL, with whom he shares the highest moral standards. These moral standards are turned on their heads, as a young drug addict sells drugs in order to keep afloat the Community Crusade Drug Rehabilitation Center, AMBROSE and ANGEL steal money to pay Community Crusade bills, JIMMY draws big business and local government into supporting his new charity organization and several untimely deaths occur along the way. JIMMY'S plan is on the way to a brilliant success, until he discovers a soft spot for the disadvantaged and falls in love with ANGEL, who has a moral epiphany, realizing that she can do more good in the world by not being quite so good, so she becomes more efficiently corrupt than he is and either will take him out or marry him and become his business partner.

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Professional staged reading At Rand Theatre in Amherst, Massachusetts

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Genre:
Farce 90 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Campaign Strategy

Synopsis:
A look behind the scenes of a political campaign, CAMPAIGN STRATEGY is a five-character, 90-minute drama, focused on the personal conflicts among political professionals in a three-way Congressional race. ALYSSA, a professional media director, turns down a job on Sara Fielding's Democratic Congressional campaign to work for Tony Bridge, a left-wing Independent candidate. Her friends, BRENDA and ERIN, and her fiance, WYMAN, try to talk her out of it on grounds that the Independent will split the Democratic vote and hand the election to a conservative Republican. WYMAN declares that he is supporting Sara Fielding. When ALYSSA turns down the Fielding job, JEFFREY, the Fielding campaign manager, recruits BRENDA, ALYSSA'S close friend for media director. JEFFREY and BRENDA are lovers, but JEFFREY'S casual attitude about the relationship is an ongoing source of tension. WYMAN goes to the Fielding campaign kickoff, where he and BRENDA flirt. With ERIN'S encouragement, WYMAN and BRENDA start an affair. Before the campaign is over, Tony Bridge is assassinated by a religious zealot, Deeply discouraged about American politics and prejudices, ALYSSA prepares to leave the country, taking a job with Associated Press in London. Whether WYMAN can salvage his relationship with ALYSSA is uncertain.

Notes:
Professional staged readings At City Lights Theatre Co in San Jose, CA And At Pear Avenue Theatre Co. in Palo Alto, CA

1st Produced:
Rehearsed reading at Pear Avenue Theater, Mountain View, California    06 Jun 2007

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Genre:
Political drama 90 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Condo

Synopsis:
DAN and HAROLD, president and treasurer, respectively, of a northern California condominium homeowner's association, are using association money for private gain. Threatened with loss of income and reputation, they take desperate steps to silence CARLA, a college student, who asks too many questions. CARLA has come to Timbercove from Key West with an unshakeable determination to take better control of her life than she has in the past. With money from drugs she has stolen from her husband, RAY, she buys a condo and finds that maintenance fees are higher than she expected and more than she can afford. She researches the financial materials, finds irregularities and begins to ask embarrassing questions. Her suspicions are reinforced with inside information from GLORIA, a long-term condo resident and DAN'S former fiancee, who is still in love with him and will offer a scheme to betray CARLA to save DAN. Threatened with loss of income and reputation, DAN encourages GLORIA to implement her plan to silence CARLA. HAROLD, on the verge of redemption, backs down and goes along with the scheme, yielding to the upper middle-class lifestyle he has achieved.

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Genre:
Social issues drama 80 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lovers and Other Furnishings

Synopsis:
On New Year's Day, furniture and furnishings are clustered in the back yard of a house on the California coast under four signs: MATTHEW, PAUL, MOSS, DEREK. At different times during the last twenty years, these men have lived here with JESSICA, a journalist in her early 40s. She has left messages on her former lovers' answering machines, asking them to retrieve the furniture and furnishings they left behind, a symbolic gesture celebrating her decision to abandon the search for love. Three of the men come to the house to find RICHARD but no JESSICA. RICHARD was JESSICA'S New Years Eve date, last night. He has not lived with her but would like to. MOSS doesn't want to retrieve his furniture. He wants Jessica back but won't admit it. MATTHEW doesn't want his belongings, either. He needs to expiate a guilty conscience. DEREK comes to get revenge. PAUL doesn't show up. Goading, ribbing and clashing with each other, the men use flashbacks in their lives with JESSICA to reveal points for and against her, inadvertently turning the camera lens on themselves to reveal some surprises. Jessica observing them from inside the cottage, makes an unexpected decision at the last minute.

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Genre:
Social relations serio-comedy 95 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Older Than Dead

Synopsis:
It is 1995 in San Francisco, the year that Jerry Garcia died and the 30th anniversary of The Grateful Dead. ANDY, one of the men in a two-couple household of sexagenarian Deadheads, has a major, paralyzing stroke. His partner, DORIANNE, decides that The Grateful Dead can jolt ANDY'S brain back to life. SAUL sets off to invite the DEAD to their house for a birthday party, but before he can do that, Jerry Garcia dies. ANDY goes to the nursing home. DORIANNE and KATE, SAUL'S partner, convince SAUL that ANDY is frustrated and enraged in the nursing home and wants them to let him die blissfully with an overdose of heroin. They sneak into the home in the dead of night and administer the fatal dose, having expertly covered their tracks. The police investigate and find no evidence against them. MICHAEL, a San Francisco Police Department detective, and closet Deadhead who met the group in the first scene, is convinced that they killed their friend. He tricks two of them into confessing, but they draw him into their Deadhead world where he faces the emotional skeletons in his closet and decides that the case is closed.

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Professional staged readings At in California At Hillbarn Theatre, Foster City, And Ross Valley Players, Ross.

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Genre:
Social relations serio-comedy 95 min

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Whitson Country

Synopsis:
Ohio congressman, BRUCE WHITSON, is suspected of but never charged with having a hand in the disappearance of Washington, D.C. intern, Kyla Rhodes, with whom he was having an affair. Media reaction threatens BRUCE'S re-election and his son GORDON'S campaign for the Ohio House of representatives. When GORDON meets LISA, Kyla's sister, they disagree on whether BRUCE is guilty or innocent, but they are attracted to each other. LISA suspects that Kyla was pregnant and threatened to blackmail BRUCE by demanding that he divorce his wife and marry her, or she would publicize their relationship. This suspicion is nourished when BRUCE offers public support for a corrupt fellow congressman, Joe Sorrent. As Joe Sorrent has Mafia connections, GORDON and LISA decide that BRUCE has conspired with Joe in a quid pro quo to have Kyla murdered. This theory is foiled few days later, when Frank Taba, already on death row for killing a policeman, confesses to killing Kyla. But Frank Taba did not kill Kyla. The truth is revealed in the last scene of the play when BRUCE'S wife, MEGAN, gets BRUCE to admit what he did and offers to keep his secret and help him to win re-election.

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Genre:
Political drama 90 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Zing Zang

Synopsis:
ELI, a shoe-store owner, and SAM, a shoe repair store owner, are close friends in a small town in Ohio. One day, ELI'S flirtatious wife, MYRA, comes into SAM'S shop to have a broken heel repaired, and MYRA and SAM go out for a cocktail at The Polynesian Lounge. When SAM tells ELI about that afternoon, it almost destroys their twenty-year friendship. Instead, it marks a turning point for ELI, who makes an unexpected trip to San Francisco to see his daughter and meets CLAIRE on a flight back to Cleveland. CLAIRE has been as loyal in her marriage as ELI has been in his, but her husband suddenly has gone to a coastal retreat with their son's girlfriend, so CLAIRE is flying to a party in Cleveland. She has taken the savings from their joint account and plans to spend it on wild adventures after the party. She invites ELI to join her, and he almost does. As the plane is landing, CLAIRE and ELI decide they are too conventional for such a spontaneous fling, but having one drink together in Denver would be harmless. In the final scene between ELI and MYRA, revelations lead to an uneasy reconciliation.

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1st Produced:
Perform Theatre Co., San Rafael, California    1994

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Genre:
Social relations drama 102 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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