F. Lynne Bachleda

F. Lynne Bachleda, a Nashville freelance researcher and non-fiction writer for 40 years, began playwrighting in her late 50s. In 2016, she attended the LaMama Umbria International Playwrights Workshop in central Italy. Also In 2016 she produced 4 of her 10-minute works for the Nashville Actor’s Bridge Sideshow Fringe Festival. One of these works, “A Tale of Two in One,” was published in THE BEST SHORT PLAYS OF 2017, edited by Lawrence Harbison and published by Smith & Kraus. Her full-length work STOLEN had a staged reading at LaMama in New York City on April 2, 2017. PMJ Productions lightly staged STOLEN at Rich Mix in London UK on April 1, 2019. In 2020 she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts where, with Master Teaching Artist Ain Gordon, she continued to...

F. Lynne Bachleda, a Nashville freelance researcher and non-fiction writer for 40 years, began playwrighting in her late 50s. In 2016, she attended the LaMama Umbria International Playwrights Workshop in central Italy. Also In 2016 she produced 4 of her 10-minute works for the Nashville Actor’s Bridge Sideshow Fringe Festival. One of these works, “A Tale of Two in One,” was published in THE BEST SHORT PLAYS OF 2017, edited by Lawrence Harbison and published by Smith & Kraus. Her full-length work STOLEN had a staged reading at LaMama in New York City on April 2, 2017. PMJ Productions lightly staged STOLEN at Rich Mix in London UK on April 1, 2019. In 2020 she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts where, with Master Teaching Artist Ain Gordon, she continued to develop her new work DO I HAVE TO? It explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and reincarnation. On her 70th birthday she was overjoyed to learn that STOLEN was awarded 2nd place in the 2021 Beverly Hills Theater Guild’s national Julie Harris Playwriting Competition.

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Scripts

STOLEN

by F. Lynne Bachleda

Cast Size
7
Genre
biography,
docudrama/historic,
drama

STOLEN is based on a true story. For nearly sixty years Cornelius Gurlitt hid 1,400 pieces of Nazi-era art valued at more than one billion dollars in his Munich apartment. His father, a “degenerate art” collector for Hitler, had slyly amassed the stash. In Cornelius’ fragile mind, the pieces¬¬ became his living and entire “family.” A chance chain of tragic and explosive events forced the octogenarian to face...

STOLEN is based on a true story. For nearly sixty years Cornelius Gurlitt hid 1,400 pieces of Nazi-era art valued at more than one billion dollars in his Munich apartment. His father, a “degenerate art” collector for Hitler, had slyly amassed the stash. In Cornelius’ fragile mind, the pieces¬¬ became his living and entire “family.” A chance chain of tragic and explosive events forced the octogenarian to face what he feared most. STOLEN looks at the weak recluse’s last days when he stands before an accusing world. Can he save his family? What happens when the paintings come alive again?

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DO I HAVE TO?

by F. Lynne Bachleda

Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy

Using the construct of reincarnation, Do I Have To? is a contemporary play that probes the implications in humans of behavior-enhancing neural implants.

The closest of friends for millennia, Glory/God and Mother of Jesus Mary use every means to push playwright Liv to accept yet another incarnation. Using newly shoppable neural implants, Glory/God is certain they want Liv to become the first artificial...

Using the construct of reincarnation, Do I Have To? is a contemporary play that probes the implications in humans of behavior-enhancing neural implants.

The closest of friends for millennia, Glory/God and Mother of Jesus Mary use every means to push playwright Liv to accept yet another incarnation. Using newly shoppable neural implants, Glory/God is certain they want Liv to become the first artificial intelligence with a soul, thus initiating a new major evolutionary offshoot. Liv, bone tired of living, resists not only another difficult incarnation, but also fears losing her sense of self honed at great cost over countless lifetimes. For her help, Mary wants a way to shed some of her pain and substance abuse arising from watching her son’s crucifixion. At the climax without warning Glory gently kills Liv, who departs this incarnation in the same way her beloved father did, with a smile of profound joy.

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Stories From the Backseat

by F. Lynne Bachleda

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
tragedy

A one-act of six monologues whose genesis was actual conversations with a Lyft driver (the playwright).

A one-act of six monologues whose genesis was actual conversations with a Lyft driver (the playwright).