LYNNE KAUFMAN
PLAYWRIGHT, NOVELIST
Website: Lynnekaufman.com
(415) 334-6577
Plays
William
Blake in Hollywood
Winner: Neil Simon Festival New Play Award, Cedar City,
Utah, July 2017
Staged reading: Cedar City, Utah, July 2017
Production: Cedar City, Utah, July 2018
Sex
Scandal
Production: Unscripted Theatre, S.F. April 2018
Two
Minds
Staged Reading: The Marsh, S.F. June 2017
Production: The Marsh, May 2018
Painting America
Book: Lynne Kaufman
Music and Lyrics: Alex Mandel
Artists Retreat: Theatreworks, June,
2014
Staged Reading: Theatreworks, New
Works Festival, August 2014
Acid Test
Production: The Marsh Berkeley, Oct 2012-Feb 2013
Production: The Marsh San Francisco, April-May 2013,
Sept.-October, 2013.
Production: Vantage Theatre, San Diego
Staged readings: The William Inge Theatre Festival 2010:
playwright in residence; Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA, North Coast
Repertory Theatre, The New York Open Center.
Immortality
Writer's Digest Competition 2010 :4th
place winner stage play
Staged reading: Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA
Filthy Rich:The Atonement of Bernie
Madoff
Staged readings: Celebrity Reading Series, L.A.,Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley,CA
Magician's Choice
Staged readings: Abingdon Theatre, N.Y.C., Magic Theatre,S.F, William Inge Theatre
Festival, Independence, Kansas.
Daisy in the Dreamtime
Production: The Fountain Theatre, L.A
Production: Golden Fish Theatre,Seattle
Production: The Abingdon Theatre, N.Y.C
Production: Echo Theatre, Dallas
Production: San Francisco State University
Awards: Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award William Inge
Theatre Festival, Rella Lossy
Playwright's Award, S.F. State University ,University
Audrey Skirball-Kennis Play Development Award
Full developmental residency: The New Harmony Project, Indiana
Staged readings: S.F.,Washington,D.C.,
N.Y., Sarasota.
Published: Women Playwrights: Best New Plays: Smith and Krause,
Dramatic Publishing
Picasso
(Musical with composer Billy Philadelphia) Workshop Theatreworks, Festival of New Plays,
The Next Marilyn
Production: Florida Studio
Theatre
Staged
Workshop production:
The Last Game Show
Production:
Staged
Fakes
Production: Florida Studio
Theatre
Film Option: 20th Century Fox,
Good Machine
Screen Treatment Option: Jean Doumanian Productions
Fifty/Fifty
Production: Theatre Artists of
Marin
Playwright's Residency:
Djerassi Foundation
Shooting Simone
Production: Actors Theatre of
Louisville, Humana Festival
Production: Florida Studio
Theatre
Production: Contemporary
American Theatre Festival
Production: Walnut Street
Theatre
Production: Theatre Conspiracy
Published: Humana Festival:
Smith and Kraus, Dramatic Publishing
Our Lady of the Desert
Production:
Production: Mendocino Theatre
Company, CA.
Staged
Award: Winner, Theatreworks Contest, Best New Play in
Speaking In Tongues
Production: Magic Theatre
Production:
Production: Cast Theatre,
Award: Winner of the
The Couch
Production: Magic Theatre
Production:
Production: Fountain Theatre
Production: 3GirlsTheatre
Published: Dramatists Play
Service
Awards: Best New Play: Dramalog, Bay Area Critics' Circle, S.F.Chronicle,
The Will Glickman Award
Novels
Slow Hands
Mira Books. Film option by Maverick Productions.
Wild Women's Weekend
Mira Books
Taking Flight
Mira Books
Short Stories
Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Good HouseKeeping,
Women's Day
Teaching
Writing workshops: U.C. Berkeley Extension, U.C.Berkeley
Osher Lifelong Living Institute, S.F. State
University Osher Lifelong Living Institute, Esalen
Institute, Omega Institute
Dramatic Representation
Selma Luttinger, Robert Freedman
Dramatic Agency, Inc. 1501 Broadway,