KIRK LYNN Department of Theatre and Dance Playwriting and Directing Program University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station D3900 Austin, TX 78712 [email protected]
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND FIELDS Writing for contemporary performance, fiction, screenwriting, the anthropology of play
EDUCATION 2004 Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting, James A. Michener Center for Writers, The University of Texas at Austin • Secondary Concentration: Fiction 1993 Bachelor of Arts in English, The University of Texas at Austin
• Graduated Cum Laude EMPLOYMENT Appointments at The University of Texas at Austin 2008-present The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Theatre and Dance
• 2017-Present: Associate Professor, Head of Playwriting • 2016-2017: Associate Professor, Performance Production Division Head (incl. Design, Playwriting, Directing, Production) • 2013-2016: Assistant Professor, Head of Playwriting/Directing Program • 2010-2013: Lecturer • 2008-2010: Adjunct Professor Other Appointments 2014-present Lecturer in Playwriting, Yale University, School of Drama 2005 Guest Artist, Florida State University, Tallahassee
Additional Professional Employment 1995-present Founding Co-producing Artist Director, Rude Mechs, Austin, TX
• 2004-2008: Development Director HONORS AND AWARDS 2018 Inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters
Herb Alpert Award Nomination
2017 Howlround National Convening for the Committee of the Jubilee
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2017 New Harmony Project, Writer in Full Development
2016 National Endowment for the Arts, Project Grant, Key Artist, Perverse Results: Not Every Mountain ($12,000)
2016 Writers' League of Texas Book Awards Discovery Prize Winner for Fiction for Rules for Werewolves
2015 Kenyon Playwrights Conference Commission of a new play entitled The Cabin ($15,000)
Faculty Fellow, College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
College of Fine Arts, Summer Stipend, The University of Texas at Austin
2014 Herb Alpert Award Nomination
2013 Map Fund Grant, Key Artist, Stop Hitting Yourself ($23,000)
B. Iden Payne Award, Outstanding Production & Best Original Script, Fixing King John
University Co-Op Creative Research Award for Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra
2012 Department of Theatre and Dance, Teaching Excellence Award, The University of Texas at Austin
2011 United States Artists Foundation, Jeanne and Michael Klein Fellow in the Theater Arts ($50,000)
MacDowell Colony Residency
Time Out New York, “Best of 2011,” The Method Gun
New York Magazine, 2011 Culture Award, The Method Gun
Austin Critics Table Awards, Best Musical Production, I’ve Never Been So Happy
David Mark Cohen New Play Award, I’ve Never Been So Happy
2010 Fusebox Festival Collaboration Award (with Magsamen + Hillerbrand), Blender Love
2009 National Endowment for the Arts, New Play Development, I’ve Never Been So Happy ($10,000)
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National Endowment for the Arts, Project Grant, Key Artist, I’ve Never Been So Happy ($12,000)
2008 National Endowment for the Arts, Project Grant, Key Artist, Method Gun, ($12,000)
Map Fund Grant, Key Artist, Method Gun ($23,000)
2007 Creative Capital Foundation, Project Grant: Playwright, The Method Gun ($45,000)
Total Theatre Award, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Get Your War On
2006 National Endowment for the Arts, Project Grant, Key Artist, Decameron, ($10,000)
2005 Map Fund Grant, Key Artist, Match-Play ($20,000)
2004 Map Fund Grant, Key Artist, Cherrywood ($15,000)
2003 National Endowment for the Arts, Project Grant, Key Artist, How Late It Was How Late ($5,000)
Map Fund Grant, Key Artist, El Paraiso ($20,000)
PUBLICATIONS 2016
“Getting Wild in the Suburbs.” To the Best of Our Knowledge. Public Radio International, 14 Feb. 2016. Web. 19 May 2016.
"Writer Kirk Lynn On Escaping, Attending, and Destroying Everything." The Write Up. KUT.ORG, 25 Jan. 2016. Web. 19 May 2016.
“Writers Recommend, Kirk Lynn.” Web log post, Poets &Writers, 1 January 2016. Web.
2015
Rules for Werewolves, a novel by Kirk Lynn, Melville House Press, Fall 2015. Print.
“Influences.” Web log post. Library of America. 20 October 2015. Web.
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“The Alarm Clock.” Web log post. Melville House Press, 9 July 2015. Web.
“Plays v. Novels.” Web log post. Lit Hub. 15 Oct. 2015. Web.
2014
Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra, Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus, 2014. Print.
“Playwright Perspective: Kirk Lynn.” Breaking from Realism. Hanover: Smith and Kraus, 2014. 149-151. Print.
2013
"Monolog." 15-Second Plays. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013. 17. Print.
“Self-Instructions to Help Me Find What Matters Most.” The 53rd State Occasional No. 1. Brooklyn: 53rd State Press, 2013. 34-36. Print.
with Hilerbrand+Magsamen. Higher Ground. Exhibit Catalog. 2013. Print.
2012
"How Much Is Enough? Our Values in Question." Theater 42.3 (2012): 48-63. Print. (Peer Reviewed)
"Questions and Prayers: An Author's Preface to How Much Is Enough?" Theater 42.3 (2012): 43-47. Print. (Peer Reviewed)
"In Search of the Artistic Home | HowlRound." Web log post. HowlRound. 26 Jan. 2012. Web.
"Thoughts on Collaboration." Lpontius.com. N.p., 23 Apr. 2012. Web. 19 May 2016.
2011
"Prayer for a Bad Performance | HowlRound." Editorial. HowlRound. 10 July 2011. Web.
“Method Gun." Humana Festival 2010: The Complete Plays. New York: Playscripts, 2011. Print.
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2009
“Method Gun.” Play: a Journal of Plays. Brooklyn, NY: Paper Theater, 2009: 123- 150 Print.
as Stella Burden. "Cinderections." Play: A Journal of Plays. Brooklyn, NY: Paper Theater, 2009: 151-59. Print.
2007
Zen Junior High. Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Pub., 2007. Print.
2003
with Shawn Sides. “Collective Dramaturgy: A Co-Consideration of the Dramaturgical Role in Collaborative Creation.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (2003): 111- 15. Print. (Peer Reviewed)
ARTISTIC WORK Current Artistic Projects
COLD RECORD A solo show premiered at the Public Theatre’s Under the Radar Festival in NYC in Jan. 2019, and will now tour internationally to Toronto and Australia.
RULES FOR WEREWOLVES – Film Adaptation Optioned by Peter Harvey in association with 10 Acre Films, to be directed by Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux.
FIXING THE LAST HENRY Part of the Fixing Shakespeare Series, developed with the University of Iowa, to premiere in Austin in December of 2019.
THE EMPORIUM Writing, Editing, and Adapting Thornton Wilder’s last/unfinished play, THE EMPORIUM.
THE VOW A novel telling the story of man who takes a vow of silence without checking with his wife or employer; as the man’s life appears to everyone else to be falling apart, his inner life grows richer and more rewarding.
CYRANO — A PERFORMANCE APP Part board game, part performance art, a new app to make performance more widely available without production costs. Current examples, THE REPLACEMENT TAPES and KARAOKE CHRISTMAS CAROL.
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Past Artistic Projects The Replacement Tapes written by Kirk Lynn, created by Rude Mechs
• On-going Rude Mechs Performance by Mail Not Every Mountain written by Kirk Lynn, created by Rude Mechs
• April 2018 Fusebox Motion Media, Austin, TX • March 2017 Rude Mechs Off Center, Austin, TX • June 2018 Pivot Arts Loyola, Chicago, IL • July 2018 Guthrie Guthrie, Minneapolis, MN 147 Devices written by Kirk Lynn, created by Magsamen & Hillerbrand
• May 2018 Magsamen & Hillerbrand Match, Houston, TX The Lamp is the Moon written by Kirk Lynn
• April 2019 Genesee College Genesee, NY • April 2018 Seattle Children’s Theatre SCT, Seattle, OR The Cold Record written by Kirk Lynn, created by Rude Mechs
• September 2019 Horizon Fest Calendra, AUSTRALIA • September 2019 Brisbane Fest Brisbane, AUSTRALIA • July 2019 Brave Festival Toronto, CANADA • January 2019 Under the Radar Public Theatre, NYC • April 2018 Fusebox Festival MOHA, Austin, TX Fixing Troilus and Cressida written by Kirk Lynn, created by Rude Mechs
• March 2017 Rude Mechs Zach, Austin, TX Karaoke Christmas Carol, written by Kirk Lynn, created by Rude Mechs
• December 2017 Rude Mechs Ground Floor, Austin, TX Fixing Timon of Athens written by Kirk Lynn, created by Rude Mechs
• February 2016 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX Field Guide written by Kirk Lynn, created by Rude Mechs, commissioned by Yale Repertory
• March 2015 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX 99 Breakups written by Kirk Lynn, commissioned and created by Pig Iron
• September 2014 Pig Iron PAFA (Pig Iron), Philadelphia, PA Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra written by Kirk Lynn
• October 2018 Present Company MOHA, Austin, TX • April 2014 Playwrights Horizons Playwrights Horizons, New York, NY
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Bum Phillips: Cowboy, Coach, Christian: an opera libretto by Kirk Lynn, commissioned by Monk Parrots
• March 2014 Monk Parrots LaMama, New York, NY
Stop Hitting Yourself written by Kirk Lynn, created by Rude Mechs, commissioned by Lincoln Center
• May 2014 Dallas Theatre Center Dallas Theatre Center, Dallas, TX • January 2014 Lincoln Center LTC3, New York, NY • April 2013 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX The Method Gun written by Kirk Lynn, created by Rude Mechs
• May 2016 Midtown Arts MATCH, Houston, TX • September 2014 The University of Texas The University of Texas, Austin, TX • February 2013 Colony Theatre Colony Theater, Miami, FL • February 2013 Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN • January 2013 Walker Arts Center Walker Arts, Minneapolis, MN • January 2013 Middlebury College Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT • February 2012 Brisbane Powerhouse Brisbane, Australia • June 2011 Center Theatre Group Kirk Douglas, Los Angeles, CA • March 2011 Dance Theatre Workshop DTW, New York, NY • February 2011 Yale Rep. Yale Rep., New Haven, CT • October 2010 Wexner Center Wexner Center, Columbus, OH • October 2010 Emerson College Emerson College, Boston, MA • April 2010 DiverseWorks DiverseWorks, Houston, TX • March 2010 Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, Louisville, KY • January 2009 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX • April 2008 Rude Mechs & Long Center The Long Center, Austin, TX Fixing King John written by Kirk Lynn
• July 2014 No Name Players No Name Players, Pittsburgh, PA • November 2013 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX How Much Is Enough?: Our Values in Question written by Kirk Lynn, created by Kirk Lynn and Melanie Joseph
• November 2011 the Foundry Theatre St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York, NY • September 2011 Arts Emerson Arts Emerson, Boston, MA I’ve Never Been So Happy book and lyrics by Kirk Lynn, music and lyrics by Peter Stopschinski, created by Rude Mechs
• September 2011 Center Theatre Group Kirk Douglas, Los Angeles, CA • January 2011 Arena Stage Arena Stage, Washington, DC • June 2009 UT & Rude Mechs The University of Texas, Austin, TX •
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Cherrywood (the modern comparable) written by Kirk Lynn
• July 2010 Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co. Mary-Arrchie, Chicago, IL • June 2005 Ensemble Theatre Festival Blue Lake, CA • November 2004 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX La Canción de la Tierra
• September 2008 Museo de los Ninos Museo de los Ninos, San Jose, Costa Rica Lipstick Traces written & adapted by Kirk Lynn, created by Rude Mechs
• May 2008 Pavement Group Pavement Group, Chicago, IL • April 2005 Burning Coal Burning Coal, Raleigh, NC • July 2003 SommerSzene SommerSzene, Salzburg, Austria • October 2002 UCLA UCLA, Los Angeles, CA • September 2002 On the Boards On The Boards, Seattle, WA • January 2002 Wexner Center The Wexner Center, Columbus, OH • January 2002 The Walker Arts Center Walker Arts, Minneapolis, MN • January 2002 Legion Arts Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA • January 2002 Diverse Works DiverseWorks, Houston, TX • May 2001 the Foundry Theatre The Ohio Theatre, New York, NY Get Your War On written & adapted by Kirk Lynn, created by Rude Mechs
• October 2007 Espoo Theatre Espoo Theatre, Helsinki, Finland • September 2007 Bumbershoot Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA • August 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Edinburgh, Scotland • July 2007 Galway Arts Festival Galway, Ireland • January 2007 59E59th 59 E 59th, New York, NY • October 2006 Woolly Mammoth Woolly Mammoth, Washington, D.C. • October 2006 Rude Mechs & Ballroom Marfa Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX • September 2006 Philly Live Arts Live Arts Festival, Philadelphia, PA • September 2006 Diverse Works DiverseWorks, Houston, TX The Wrestling Patient written & adapted by Kirk Lynn, created by Anne Gottlieb, Kirk Lynn, and Katie Pearl
• March 2009 40 Magnolias SpeakEasy Stage Co., Boston, MA Major Bang written by Kirk Lynn
• July 2007 Sydney Opera House Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia • May 2007 Spoleto Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC • October 2006 Wexner Center Wexner Center, Columbus, OH • October 2006 On the Boards On the Boards, Seattle, WA • January 2006 St. Ann’s Warehouse St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York, NY • August 2005 the Foundry Theatre The Ohio Theater, New York, NY
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Decameron Day 7: REVENGE! written by Kirk Lynn
• April 2006 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX Pale Idiot written by Kirk Lynn
• March 2006 MadLab Theatre MadLab Theatre, Columbus, OH • December 2005 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX • October 2004 UNM Dept. of Theater UNM Theater, Albuquerque, NM • August 2003 Ehren Christian NYC Fringe Festival, New York, NY • October 1996 Rude Mechs Waller Creek Auditorium, Austin TX Match-Play written & adapted by Kirk Lynn
• October 2015 New York Live Arts New York Live Arts, New York, NY • September 2005 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX The Jinn written by Kirk Lynn
• August 2010 MadLab Theatre MadLab Theatre, Columbus, OH • February 2005 dirigo group Blue Theatre, Austin, TX Zen Junior High
• November 2004 HERE Arts Center HERE Arts Center, New York, NY How Late It Was How Late written & adapted by Kirk Lynn
• September 2004 Philly Live Arts Philly Live Arts Festival, Philadelphia, PA • September 2003 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX Requiem for Tesla written by Kirk Lynn, created by Rude Mechs
• January 2003 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX • February 2001 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX El Paraiso (the humiliation of pleasure) book and lyrics by Kirk Lynn, created by Rude Mechs
• April 2002 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX WAR written by Kirk Lynn
• June 2000 Rude Mechs The Off Center, Austin, TX The Faminly Trilogy written by Kirk Lynn Lust Supper (Part I)
• May 1995 Selma Bones Productions St. Mark’s Studio Theatre, New York, NY • November 1997 Rude Mechs Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, TX Crucks (Part II)
• July 1998 Rude Mechs Public Domain, Austin, TX
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Salivation (Part III)
• November 1998 Rude Mechs Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, TX
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR COLD RECORD 2019 McGuiness, Max. “Teenage angst and asylum seekers—” Theatre, Financial Times, 9 Jan. 2019.
Brantley, Ben & Green, Jesse. “Hate Hope and Healing at Under the Radar” New York Times, 7 Jan. 2019.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR FIXING TROILUS AND CRESSIDA 2018 Murphy, Cason. “Fixing Troilus & Cressida by Rude Mechs (review),” Shakespeare Bulletin, Johns Hopkins University Press, Vol. 36, Number 4, pp. 722-726. Winter 2018.
Lee, Mike. “Playwright Kirk Lynn Works On 'Fixing Troilus And Cressida'.” KUT, 12 Mar. 2018.
Lorraine, Joni. “Rude Mechanicals Actually Fix TROILUS AND CRESSIDA with FIXING TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.” BroadwayWorld.com, BroadwayWorld.com, 15 Mar. 2018.
Hopkins, I.B. “Hey, Finally! - The Rude Mechs Fix ‘Troilus and Cressida.’” Sightlines, 20 Mar. 2018.
Cobbe, Elizabeth. “Rude Mechs Fixing Troilus and Cressida.” Review: Rude Mechs Fixing Troilus and Cressida - Arts - The Austin Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018.
Friedenthal, Andrew J. “Austin Theater Review: Fixing Troilus & Cressida by Rude Mechs | Austin Arts: Seeing Things.” Austin Arts Seeing Things, 13 Mar. 2018.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR NOT EVERY MOUNTAIN 2017 Dembin, Russell M. “How Rude Mechs Built a Mountain to Scale.” AMERICAN THEATRE, 30 June 2017.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR FIXING TIMON OF ATHENS 2016 Michael Meigs, “Timon of Athens Gets A Fine 'Fix' in Austin,” PlayShakespeare.com, February 26, 2016.
Frank Benge, “BWW Review: FIXING TIMON OF ATHENS Delivers Modern Parable On Greed,” Broadway Word.com Austin, February 15, 2016.
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Shanon Weaver, “The Rude Mechs' Fixing Timon of Athens,” The Austin Chronicle, February 12, 2016.
Andrew J. Friedenthal, “Theater review: Rude Mechs’ “Fixing Timon of Athens” rejuvenates Shakespeare,” The Austin American-Statesman, February 8, 2016.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR RULES FOR WEREWOLVES 2015 Stuart Kelly, “Rules for Werewolves by Kirk Lynn review – a formidable debut with bite,” The Guardian, December 19, 2015.
Robert Faires, “Rules for Werewolves,” The Austin Chronicle, December 11, 2015.
David Nilsen, “(Book Review) Rules for Werewolves by Kirk Lynn,” Fourth & Sycamore, December 5, 2015.
Martha Sheridan, “Fiction: ‘Rules for Werewolves,’ by Kirk Lynn,” The Dallas Morning News, November 6, 2015.
Joe Gross, “Kirk Lynn’s ‘Rules for Werewolves’ explores the suburbs as resource,” Austin American-Statesman, October 24, 2015.
Michael Schaub, “The 7 Best Books of October,” Men’s Journal, October 1, 2015.
Literary Hub, “The Great Bookseller Fall Preview,” Literary Hub, August 27, 2015.
“Rules for Werewovles,” Publishersweekly.com, August 10, 2015.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR 99 BREAKUPS 2014 Kathryn Osenlund, “A CurtainUp Review: 99 Breakups,” CurtainUp, September 10, 2014.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR YOUR MOTHER’S COPY OF THE KAMA SUTRA 2014 Patrick Maley, “Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra,” Exeunt Magazine, April 26, 2014.
Frank Scheck, “‘Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra’ explores intimacy, fails,” New York Post, April 23, 2014.
David Barbour, “Theatre in Review: Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra (Playwrights Horizons),” lightingandsoundamerica.com, April 22, 2014.
Joe McGovern, “'Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra': EW review,” Entertainment Weekly, April 22, 2014.
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Naveen Kumar, “This New Play Will Make You Relive Your Entire Sex Life,” Nerve, April 22, 2014.
Charles Isherwood, “A Journey to Intimacy That’s Nobody’s Business but Their Own,” The New York Times, April 21, 2014.
Hayley Levitt, “Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra,” TheatreMania, April 21, 2014.
Helen Shaw, “Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra,” Time Out New York, April 21, 2014.
Steven Suskin, “Aisle View: The Doddering Old Lady and the Kama Sutra,” The Huffington Post, April 21, 2014.
Matthew Murray, “Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra,” TalkinBroadway.com, April 21, 2014.
Kathleen Campion, “Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra,” NewYorkTheatreGuide.com
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR BUM PHILLIPS: COWBOY, COACH, CHRISTIAN 2014 Mike Tanier, “A Night at the Bum Phillips Opera,” Sports on Earth, March 14, 2014.
Robert Silverman, “Inside the Bum Phillips Opera. (Yes, There Is A Bum Phillips Opera.),” Deadspin, March 19, 2014.
Adam Chandler, “An Icon of Football Is the Muse for Arias,” The New York Times, March 29, 2014.
2013 Joel Luks, “The Bum Phillips opera is taking shape: Yes, this crazy concept rocks,” CultureMap Houston, July 10, 2013.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR STOP HITTING YOURSELF 2015 Mark Lowry, “Cheese Whizzes,” Theatre Jones, May 30, 2015.
Lauren Smart, “A Queso Fountain, Busby Berkeley and Other Reasons to See Stop Hitting Yourself,” Dallas Observer, May 26, 2015.
Cate Blouke, “Tap Dancing, Decadence, and a Queso Fountain: Rude Mechs Make Their Dallas Debut,” Arts + Culture Texas, April 22, 2015.
2014 Melissa Moschitto, “STOP HITTING YOURSELF: Rude Mechs Take on the 1%, and You,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 14, 2014.
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David Cote, “Stop Hitting Yourself,” Time Out New York, January 28, 2014.
Robert Feldberg, “Theater review: 'Stop Hitting Yourself',” northjersey.com, January 28, 2014.
Marilyn Stasio, “Off Broadway Review: ‘Stop Hitting Yourself’,” Variety, January 27, 2014.
Charles Isherwood, “The Rats Take the Nacho Cheese,” The New York Times, January 27, 2014.
Jesse Green, “Theater Review: Stop Hitting Yourself Tries to Make It in the Big City,” Vulture, January 27, 2014.
Joe Dziemianowicz, “‘Stop Hitting Yourself,’ theater review,” New York Daily News, January 27, 2014.
Matthew Murray, “Stop Hitting Yourself,” TalkinBroadway.com, January 27, 2014.
Jonathan Mandell, “Stop Hitting Yourself Review: Rude Mechs Spice Up Lincoln Center with Lots of Cheese,” New York Theatre, January 24, 2014.
“A Sidesplitting First Look at the Rude Mechs’ Stop Hitting Yourself,” Theatremania, January 22, 2014.
2013 Robert Faires, “’Stop Hitting Yourself’ Again!,” The Austin Chronicle, September 19, 2013.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR THE METHOD GUN 2014 Elizabeth Cobbe, “The Method Gun,” The Austin Chronicle, September 19, 2014.
Robert Faires, “Loading Up The Method Gun,” The Austin Chronicle, September 10, 2014.
Cate Blouke, “Wrestling with Truth & Beauty,” Arts + Culture Texas, August 31, 2014.
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Rude Mechs remount 'The Method Gun' Sept. 10-14,” The Austin American-Statesman, August 12, 2014.
2013 Katie Mills, “Theater review: Rude Mechs’ Odd ‘Method Gun’ Amazing Work of Art,” ArtsNash, February 2, 2013.
Jay Gabler, “THEATER REVIEW | Rude Mechs’ “The Method Gun” at the Walker Art Center: Avant-garde mockumentary,” TC Daily Planet, January 12, 2013.
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2011 Jim Rutter, “Eat your heart out, Jesus: What Stella Burden's disciples did for art,” Broad Street Review, September 3, 2011.
Howard Shapiro, “Review: The Method Gun,” The Inquirer, September 3, 2011.
Les Spindle, “The Method Gun,” Backstage.com, June 16, 2011.
Alexis Soloski, “Whose Avant-Garde,” The Village Voice, May 18, 2011.
Amanda Cooper, “A CurtainUp Review The Method Gun,” CurtainUp, March 2, 2011.
Avi Glickstein, “The Method Gun,” New York Theatre, March 2, 2011.
Jason Zinoman, “Stell-aaa! Where Are You? And Where’s Your Sister?,” The New York Times, March 12, 2011.
Marilyn Stasio, “’The Method Gun’ is a choice example of Rude Mechs' satirical wit and inventive performance style.,” Variety, March 7, 2011.
Helen Shaw, Review: The Method Gun,” Time Out New York, March 7, 2011.
Joan Anderman, “Many Methods to Collaborative Madness,” The New York Times, February 22, 2011.
2010 Don Aucoin, “‘Method Gun’ takes shot at re-creating classic,” The Boston Globe, October 15, 2010.
Ed Siegel, “Review: The Method Gun,” The Boston Phoenix, October 14, 2010.
2009 Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Statesman Review: The Method Gun,” The Austin American-Statesman, April 14, 2009.
2008 Robert Faires, “The Method Gun,” The Austin Chronicle, April 11, 2008.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR FIXING KING JOHN 2014 Christopher Rawson, “Stage Review: 'Fixing King John' strips away too much of the Bard,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 26, 2014.
Michelle Pilecki, “Fixing King John at No Name Players,” Pittsburgh CityPaper, July 23, 2014.
Corey Hawk, “Fixing King John,” Pittsburgh in the Round, July 22, 2014.
2013 Elizabeth Cobbe, “Fixing King John,” The Austin Chronicle, November 22, 2013.
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Phillip John, Review: Fixing King John,” Arts + Culture Texas, November 12, 2013.
Cate Blouke, “Review: ‘Fixing King John’,” The Austin American-Statesman, November 11, 2013.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?: OUR VALUES IN QUESTION 2011 Rachel Saltz, “A Night to Ponder Birth, Death and Dreams,” The New York Times, November 18, 2011.
Chris Kompanek, “How Much Is Enough?,” TheatreMania, November 13, 2011.
Erica H. Adams, “Fuse Theater Review: How Much Is Enough: A Gentle Conversation between Theater Company and Audience,” Arts Fuse, September 19, 2011.
Laura Collins-Hughes, “Charing their value of interactive theater,” The Boston Globe, September 10, 2011.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR I’VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY 2011 Terry Morgan, “Theatre Review: 'I've Never Been So Happy' Is a Complete Misfire,” laist, October 14, 2011.
Les Spindle, “I’ve Never Been So Happy,” Backstage, October 12, 2011.
Sarah Taylor Ellis, “Los Angeles Theater Review: I’VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY (The Rude Mechs),” Stage and Cinema, October 12, 2011.
John Young, “I’ve Never Been So Happy,” Entertainment Weekly, October 11, 2011.
Charles NcNulty, “Theater review: 'I've Never Been So Happy' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre,” Los Angeles Times, October 10, 2011.
George Alexander, “I’ve Never Been So Happy, LA,” CultureVulture, October 10, 2011.
Bob Verini, “Review: ‘I’ve Never Been So Happy’,” Variety, October 9, 2011.
Elizabeth Cobbe, “I’ve Never Been So Happy,” The Austin Chronicle, April 29, 2011.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR LIPSTICK TRACES 2002 Reed Johnson, “Ode to Anarchy,” Los Angeles Times, September 27, 2002.
2001 Beth Rosemberg, “Nothing is True: Lipstick Traces and The 20th Century,” The Brooklyn Rail, August 1, 2001.
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Caraid O’Brien, “Tex Pistols,” OffOffOff, May 24, 2001.
Ben Brantley, “THEATER REVIEW; A Lecture on Punk May Not Be What You Thunk,” The New York Times, May 11, 2001.
Les Gutman, “Lipstick Traces,” CurtainUp, May 11, 2001.
David Sanjek, “Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century,” PopMatters.
2000 Ada Calhoun, ”Everything is Possible…Again,” The Austin Chronicle, Septeber 1, 2000.
Robi Polgar, “Lipstick Traces: Rock On!,” The Austin Chronicle, September 8, 2000.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR GET YOUR WAR ON 2007 Marilyn Stasio, “Review: ‘Get Your War On,” Variety, January 14, 2007.
Jason Zinoman, “A History Lesson That Sprays Scorn Liberally,” The New York Times, January 13, 2007.
Dan Bacalzo, “Get Your War On,” TheatreMania, January 12, 2007.
Jenny Sandman, “Get Your War On,” CurtainUp, January 10, 2007.
2006 Peter Marks, “'Get Your War On': Precision Weapons Of Mass Derision,” The Washington Post, October 10, 2006.
Robert Faires, “Get Your War On,” The Austin Chronicle, February 3, 2006.
2005 Heather Barfield Cole, “Get Your War On,” The Austin Chronicle, May 6, 2005.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR THE WRESTLING PATIENT 2009 Louise Kennedy, “A moving story of a complicated woman,” The Boston Globe, April 2, 2009.
Thomas Garvey, “Wrestling with History,” The Hub Review, April 2, 2009.
Iris Fanger, “THEATER REVIEW: 'Wrestling Patient' is story of survival,” The Patriot Ledger, March 31, 2009.
Larry Stark, “What Happened in Boston, Willie,” The Theatre Mirror.
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Matthew Small, “The Wrestling Patient,” Talkin’ Broadway.
2008 “THE WRESTLING PATIENT Selected as NEA Play Competition Finalist,” Broadway World Boston, October 28, 2008.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR MAJOR BANG 2007 Lee Bemrose, “Major Bang Review,” TwoBlueFish, July 26, 2007.
Tessa Needham, “Major Bang: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dirty Bomb,” Australian Stage, July 20, 2007.
Kelsey Munro, “Be very afraid,” The Sydney Morning Herald, June 30, 2007.
Nick Smith, “REVIEW: Major Bang: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dirty Bomb,” Charleston City Paper, May 20, 2007.
2006 Ben Brantley, “It Only Hurts When You Don’t Laugh,” The New York Times, January 25, 2006.
Marilyn Stasio, “Review: Major Bang: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dirty Bomb,” Variety, January 25, 2006.
Liesl Schillinger, “Some Strange Love for a Different Bomb,” The New York Times, January 22, 2006.
Andy Propst, “Major Bang or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dirty Bomb,” Backstage, February 1, 2006.
Robert Faires, “Austin Art in NYC,” The Austin Chronicle, February 3, 2006.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR DECAMERON DAY 7: REVENGE! 2006 Robert Faires, “Decameron Day 7: REVENGE!,” The Austin Chronicle, April 28, 2006.
Steve Moore, “Payback as Comeback,” The Austin Chronicle, April 14, 2006.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR PALE IDIOT 2005 Heather Barfield Cole, “Pale Idiot,” The Austin Chronicle, December 9, 2005.
Barry Pineo, “'Pale Idiot': Return to the Rudeness That Started It All,” The Austin Chronicle, December 2, 2005.
2003 Joshua Tanzer, “Idiot’s Delight,” offoffoff.com, August 23, 2003.
Scott Medelsohn, “Pale Idiot,” nytheatre.com, August 15, 2003.
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REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR MATCH-PLAY 2015 Christina Pandolfi, “BWW Review: RUDE MECHS delivers a striking portrayal of the human condition,” BroadwayWorld.com, October 12, 2015.
Helen Shaw, “Match-Play,” Time Out New York, October 9, 2015.
Brian Seibert, “Review: Deborah Hay’s ‘Match-Play’ Fuses Dance and Theater,” The New York Times, October 8, 2015.
2005 Robert Faires, “Match-Play,” The Austin Chronicle, September 30, 2005.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR THE JINN 2005 Robert Faires, “The Jinn,” The Austin Chronicle, March 11, 2005.
Wayne Alan Brenner, “Down at the Jinn Mill,” The Austin Chronicle, February 18, 2005.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR HOW LATE IT WAS HOW LATE 2003 Robi Polgar, “How Late It Was, How Late,” The Austin Chronicle, September 19, 2003.
REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR REQUIEM FOR TESLA 2003 Robert Faires, “Requiem for Tesla,” The Austin Chronicle, January 31, 2003.
2001 Wayne Allen Brenner, “Requiem for Tesla,” The Austin Chronicle, March 2, 2001.
REVIEWS AND PROFILES OF ARTISTIC WORK 2016 Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Austin playwright Kirk Lynn 'fixes' Shakespeare’s problematic plays,” Austin American-Statesman, February 8, 2016.
2015 Gen de Botton, “An Indies Introduce Q&A With Kirk Lynn,” American Booksellers Association, October 14, 2015.
Mark Krotov, “’I think it’s pretty clear you’re wrong’: An interview with Kirk Lynn,” mhpbooks.com, October 6, 2015.
2014 “6 QUESTIONS: Kirk Lynn,” La MaMa Blog, March 3, 2014.
Adam Greenfield, “Artist Interview with Kirk Lynn,” Playwrights Horizons.
2013 Michael Darling, “Q & A with Rude Mechanicals Playwright Kirk Lynn,” Texas Observer, November 22, 2013.
Eric Dyer, “Rude Mechanicals,” BOMB Magazine, Winter 2013.
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2011 Robert Faires, “Kirk Lynn For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow,” The Austin Chronicle, December 9, 2011.
2010 Eric & Andy, “Interview with Kirk Lynn,” Cherrywatch, August 30, 2010.
Adam Szymkowicz, “I Interview Playwrights Part 203: Kirk Lynn,” I Interview Playwrights, June 29, 2010.
PBS Feature on Rude Mechs’ Work
2015 “Rude Mechs” Arts in Context, PBS KLRU, January 29, 2015, National.
TEACHING The University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate Courses
• UGS 303 Playing and Writing (Fall 2018) • UGS 303 Performance of Prayer (Fall 2014, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017) • TD 311 Languages of the Stage (Fall 2010, Fall 2011) • TD 323C Directing I (Fall 2010) • TD 325 Playwriting II (Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2014) • TD 325P Projects in Playwriting (Spring 2016) • TD 326P Projects in Theatre Studies (Fall 2014) • TD 351T New Play Dramaturgy (Fall 2008) • TD 351T Directing New Work (Spring 2011, Spring 2012) • TD 351T Entrepreneurship in the Performing Arts (Fall 2012) • TD 353C Devised Work (Spring 2016, Fall 2016) • TD 355T Playwriting III (Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2013) • TD 355T Devising Theatre (Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017) • TD 357T New Play Creation: Conception – Rehearsal (Fall 2009) Graduate Courses
• TD 180P Advanced Projects in Performance: Playwriting (Fall 2008, Spring 2009) • TD 180P Playwriting/Directing Colloquium (Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2013) • TD 384 Special Problems in Theatre and Dance (Spring 2010) • TD 380P Advanced Projects in Playwriting (Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018) • TD 390 Advanced Playwriting Workshop (Spring 2010, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015)
Guest Lectures, Workshops, Panel Participation 2014-present Yale University, School of Drama Writing for the Ensemble 2005 Florida State University Collaborating Alone
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ADVISING The University of Texas at Austin, Student Advising and Committees Academic Advising in Playwriting and Directing 2016-17 I-Chia Chiu, Hannah Kenah, Daria.Miyeko.Marinelli, Thom May, Adam Sussman 2015-16 Paz Pardo, Drew Paryzer, Graham Schmidt, Travis Tate, Hannnah Wolf 2014-15 Kimberley Belflower, Liz Doss, William Glick, Cara Phipps, Megan Tabque 2013-14 Lydia Brunner, Joanna Garner, Tegan McLeod, Gia Marotta, Natalie Novacek 2012-13 Jessica Hutchinson, Gabi Reisman, Pat Shaw, Eva Suter, David Turkel 2011-12 Katie Bender, Reina Hardy, Kevin Kautzman, Sarah Saltwick, Steve Wilson
M.F.A Theses (Completed) 2018 Paz Pardo (chair), Drew Paryzer, Graham Schmidt, Travis Tate (chair)
2017 Kimberley Belflower, Liz Doss, William Glick (*chair) Cara Phipps, Megan Tabaque (*chair)
2016 Lydia Brunner, Joanna Garner, Gianna Marotta (*chair), Tegan McLeod, Natalie Novacek (*chair)
2015 Katie Bender, Reina Hardy (*chair), Brian Kettler (*chair), Eva Suter, Steven Wilson
2014 Jessica Hutchinson, Briandaniel Ogelsby (*chair) Gabi Reisman, Pat Shaw (*chair) David Turkel (*chair)
2013 Will Davis, Andrew Hinderaker, Abe Koogler, Diana Lynn Small
Current M.F.A Theses 2019 I-Chia Chiu, Hannah Kenah, Daria Miyeko Marinelli (chair), Thom May (chair) Adam Sussman
Artistic Advising and Mentorship 2013-2016 Faculty Advisor for 4P & a D graduate student organization
Letters of Recommendations (jobs, fellowships, internships) Katie Bender, Jeremy Birkline (undergraduate), Sarah Coleman, Elizabeth Doss, Erin Edens, Rosalind Faires (undergraduate), Tyler Gobble, Rebecca Goldstein (undergraduate), Diana Grisanti, Reina Hardy, Audrey Hartman (undergraduate), Orlando Hernandez (undergraduate), Tom Horan, Alexa Kelly (undergraduate), Brian Kettler, Abe Koogler, Luke Leonard, Gianna Marotta, Sidney Monroe, Courtney Moreno (undergraduate), Steve Moulds, Briandaniel Oglesby, Moses Park (undergraduate) Rudy Ramirez, Gabi Reisman, Graham Schmidt, Pat Shaw, Diana Lynn Small, John Smiley, Travis Tate, David Turkel, Kelsey Vidic
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SERVICE 2018 Head of Playwriting Area 2017 Search Committee Chair for Senior Playwriting Hire 2016-2017 Division Head of Production Division 2014-2017 Graduate Advisor, Michener Center for Writers 2012-Present David Mark Cohen New Works Festival, Co-Producer 2012-Present Department of Theatre and Dance Curriculum Committee, Member 2012-2016 Head of Playwriting/Directing Area 2012-2014 Department of Theatre and Dance Graduate Studies Committee, Member 2012 Search Committee for positions in Directing and Stage Management, Member 2007-2010 Panelist for The University of Texas Keene Prize in Literature
NATIONAL SERVICE 2016 Literature Panelist for Yaddo Residency 2015-Present Founder and Member of the Committee for the Jubilee, an organization pledged to address theatre equity by 2020 2014-Present National Advisory Board, Howlround, a knowledge commons by and for the theatre community 2012 Panelist for USArtist Awards 2010, 2006 Literature Panelist for City of Austin Cultural Contracts 2009 Theatre Panelist for NEA
REPRESENTATION My representation team is robust and represents the synergy of my work. Dramatic writing is marketable to film, television, stage, and classroom. I am currently at work on adapting my novel for film and creating original content for television.
Theatrical, Film and Television Mark Orsini — Bret Adams Ltd. [email protected] 448 W 44th St. New York, NY 10036 T: +1 212 765 5630
Fiction Emily Forland — Brandt & Hochman [email protected] 1501 Broadway, Suite 2310 New York, NY 10036 t: +1 212 840 5767 f: +1 212 840 5776
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