Plays by Lynne Kaufman

 Poetic Justice Who Killed Sylvia PlathWilliam Blake in Hollywood • Sex Scandal • Two Minds • Painting America • Acid Test • Immortality • Filthy Rich:The Atonement of Bernie Madoff • Magician's Choice • Daisy in the Dreamtime • Picasso • The Next Marilyn • The Last Game Show • Fakes • Fifty/Fifty • Shooting Simone • Our Lady of the Desert • Speaking In Tongues • The Couch


Poetic Justice

Staged Reading: The Magic Theatre,

Production: MarshSF and MarshBerkeley

Nominated: Best New Play and Best Play, Broadway World 2023 and Bay Area Awards

Who Killed Sylvia Plath

Winner: Marshstream International Solo Festival,

Production: MarshSF and MarshBerkeley

 

William Blake in Hollywood

Winner: Neil Simon Festival New Play Award, Cedar City, Utah

Staged reading: Cedar City, Utah

Production: Cedar City, Utah

 

Sex Scandal

Production: Unscripted Theatre, S.F.

 

Two Minds

Staged Reading: The Marsh, S.F.

Production: The Marsh

 

Painting America

Book: Lynne Kaufman

Music and Lyrics: Alex Mandel

Artists Retreat: Theatreworks

Staged Reading: Theatreworks, New Works Festival

 

Acid Test

Production: The Marsh Berkeley

Production: The Marsh San Francisco

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 :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, Palo Alto, Staged reading ODC theatre

 

The Next Marilyn

Production: Florida Studio Theatre

Staged Reading: Playbrokers,S.F., Abingdon Theatre

Workshop production: Florida Studio Theatre Festival of New Plays

 

The Last Game Show

Production: Horizons Theatre, D.C.

Staged Readings: Marin Theatre Company , Jewish Women's Playwright Festival, L.A.

 

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: Theatreworks, CA.

Production: Mendocino Theatre Company, CA.

Staged Reading: Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Award: Winner, Theatreworks Contest, Best New Play in California

 

Speaking In Tongues

Production: Magic Theatre

Production: North Coast Repertory

Production: Cast Theatre, L.A.

Award: Winner of the Kennedy Center/ NEA/ New American Plays Award

 

The Couch

Production: Magic Theatre

Production: North Coast Repertory

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