Lynn Marie Macy

Based on a true story, Doubt & Deliberation is a theatrical examination of the magical intersection of art with real life. It is 1838 London and Anna Austen Lefroy attends a garden party thrown by her cousin Fanny Austen Knight, Lady Knatchbull in celebration of Queen Victoria’s coronation. Close as children the two cousins’ paths in life have dramatically diverged. Their only common bond is their Aunt, the famous author Jane Austen with whose spiritual presence Anna continually connects. The scenes flash back to Anna and Fanny’s youthful experiences within their families. Anna dreams of becoming a writer like her celebrated Aunt and Fanny scrutinizes the qualities of her multiple suitors. Both young women look to Jane Austen for advice and lessons in literature, life and love. The scene returns to the garden party and Anna, with the support of her brother Edward and her family, has discovered a renewed sense of purpose. Jane Austen wrote social satires, which highlight the difficult position of women in the 18th century and her universal themes still resonate today.

If you think your life is challenging, just imagine your stepfather is Napoleon Bonaparte? Based on a true story of the French Revolution MADAME CAMPAN'S ACADEMY follows the relationship of Hortense de Beauharnais, her beloved teacher Madame Campan and Hortense's stepfather General Napoleon Bonaparte. Hortense's own father was a victim of the bloody French Revolution. Hers is a Cinderella story of riches to rags to riches as she rises from a penniless seamstress’s apprentice to the Tuileries Palace as stepdaughter to the First Consul of the French Republic. Hortense de Beauharnais realizes her dream of going to school when she is finally enrolled in Madame Campan’s Academy. Madame Campan, a former lady-in-waiting to Queen Marie Antoinette is the best teacher in France. Hortense’s many schoolmates include the horrible Caroline Bonaparte, sister to Napoleon and Eliza Monroe, daughter to James Monroe, a future President of the United States of America. When Hortense’s mother Josephine and Caroline’s brother Napoleon Bonaparte are married, Caroline and Hortense’s relationship is in turmoil. Caroline has a secret and that only Hortense can help her with and Hortense remains hopeful that someday they might be friends. Survival, study, music, art, war and romance fill their days at MADAME CAMPAN’S ACADEMY.

Hardly the demure spinster of our collective imaginations Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Georgian England, a lively and robust period of history. Austen’s epistolary novella Lady Susan was written in 1795, an unpredictable time of upheaval and transition. In this adaptation the newly widowed Lady Susan Vernon has fallen on hard times but is determined to restore her broken fortunes at the expense of everyone around her. Manipulative, callous and cruel the notorious coquette conducts a clandestine affair with a handsome married rake as she concocts schemes to force her own daughter Frederica into an unwanted marriage. - All the while siphoning funds from relatives, seducing unsuspecting young men and ordering a fashionable new wardrobe in the latest “antique” style. the script is factually researched with a nod to the Royal Post and late Georgian theatrical traditions. Indeed, Lady Susan Or the Captive Heart, A Jane Austen Bodice Ripper is structured in the manner of a Sheridan comedy, which enlivens Austen’s early work delineating her characters and revealing a rollicking, ribald tale fully accessible to contemporary audiences. Literature’s greatest villainess is about to take center stage.

In Schiller’s drama Intrigue & Love Ferdinand is the son of Baron von Walter, the Premier Minister in the court of a German Prince whose nefarious political intrigues require Ferdinand to marry the Prince’s mistress, the beautiful Lady Milford. But Ferdinand and Louisa Miller, a simple musicians daughter, are in love and he refuses to acquiesce to his father’s will. With the assistance of his twisted secretary Wurm, the Premier employs dark schemes and psychological manipulations against Luisa, her parents and Ferdinand himself in order to separate the lovers resulting only in destruction and despair.

Inspired by historical characters and events, Innocent Diversions, A Christmas Entertainment with Jane Austen & Friends is a delightful and heartwarming holiday event. The Austen family had a tradition of presenting plays at the Christmas holidays in which family members and friends joined the fun. In this imagined scenario, it is December 1803 and the Austens are invited to Manydown Park, the Hampshire estate of the Bigg-Wither family for a Christmas celebration. This season’s holiday theatricals are to highlight Jane’s own outrageously funny early writings, friendships and family ties are put to the test when romance erupts between the players and it is up to Jane to dry the tears, mend the broken hearts and save their Christmas performance from disaster.

A comedic Trilogy of related one-act plays celebrating the difficult and often hilarious realities of artistic personalities pushed to the edge in New York City. The clock is running down for the heroes and heroines of “Once In A Blue Moon”, “Twice Blessed” and “The Thrice Three Muses”.

Austen’s Northanger Abbey is to the gothic novel genre what the Scream movie is to the horror film genre – a hilarious send up everyone can enjoy. Comedy! Adventure! Romance!... Murder? Lynn Marie Macy’s comic adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel follows the adventures of Catherine Morland, a passionate - though impressionable English country village girl, who is perhaps too devoted to reading gothic thrillers. Young Catherine hungers for adventure and soon finds it in the fashionable spa resort of Bath. Hosted by Mr. & Mrs. Allen, her wealthy neighbors from home, she is caught up in the Thorpe and Tilney family’s social whirl all the while obsessively reading her exciting new novel, Radcliffe’s "The Mysteries Of Udolpho". Scenes from the novel, experienced in Catherine's vivid imagination, are melded with her comparably civil yet equally adventurous real life. The outcome is a swashbuckling coming-of-age journey through Catherine's two realities, as all roads lead to an unforeseen trip to the Tilney's mysterious estate, Northanger Abbey.