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Kirk Lynn Cv 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 Lynn CV 1 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) Lynn CV 2 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. <http://www.ttbook.org/book/getting-wild-suburbs>. Audio podcast. "Writer Kirk Lynn On Escaping, Attending, and Destroying Everything." The Write Up. KUT.ORG, 25 Jan. 2016. Web. 19 May 2016. <http://kut.org/post/writer-kirk- lynn-escaping-attending-and-destroying-everything>. “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. Lynn CV 3 “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. <http://lpontius.com/guest-blog-kirk-lynn-thoughts-on-collaboration/>. Web. 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. Lynn CV 4 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 HIGH CRIMES The Impeachment of the Worst President in U.S. History New Rude Mechs play. Written by Kirk Lynn about Andrew Johnson, Impeachment and Reconstruction. To premiere in Fusebox Festival in 2020 RULES FOR WEREWOLVES – Film Adaptation Optioned by Peter Harvey in association with 10 Acre Films, to be directed by Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux. Short film accepted into SXSW! FIXING THE LAST HENRY Part of the Fixing Shakespeare Series, developed with the University of Iowa, to premiere in Austin in June 2020 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. Lynn CV 5 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 Lynn CV 6 • April 2014 Playwrights Horizons Playwrights Horizons, New York, NY 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,
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