Plays by Lynne Kaufman
Poetic Justice • Who Killed Sylvia Plath • William 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