LYNNE KAUFMAN
PLAYWRIGHT, NOVELIST
lynnekaufman@comcast.net
Lynnekaufman.com
390 Moncada Way, S.F. CA 94127
(415) 334-6577
Plays
Who Killed Sylvia Plath
Winner: Marshstream International Solo Festival, 2020
Production: MarshSF and MarshBerkeley 2019, 2020
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, 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
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, Suite 2310, N.Y. N.Y. 10036, phone: 212 840- 5765. Fax: 212 840-5776