Lynne S. Brandon
MFA in Playwriting, Smith College. Also trained with Ellen McLaughlin, Stephen Adly Gurgis, Sarah Ruhl, James Lecesne, Arthur Giron, Emily Mann, Sinan Ünel, Shirley Kaplan, Kate Aspengren.
READINGS and PERFORMANCES
• “The Butch Project, Part I,” directed-reading, TC Squared Theatre Company, Boston, March 2019; 10-minute excerpt included in TC Squared Play Festival, Boston, May 2019....
MFA in Playwriting, Smith College. Also trained with Ellen McLaughlin, Stephen Adly Gurgis, Sarah Ruhl, James Lecesne, Arthur Giron, Emily Mann, Sinan Ünel, Shirley Kaplan, Kate Aspengren.
READINGS and PERFORMANCES
• “The Butch Project, Part I,” directed-reading, TC Squared Theatre Company, Boston, March 2019; 10-minute excerpt included in TC Squared Play Festival, Boston, May 2019.
• “At The Line,” workshop production by Rad Fem Arts, Boston, MA 2018.
• “Mad Cow,” workshop production by Rad Fem Arts, Boston, MA 2016.
• "Tops," directed staged-reading, Boston, MA, 2015.
• “Sexism in Theatre,” We Are Theatre, Guerrilla Girls on Tour, New York, 2012.
• “Mad Cow,” Pride Films and Plays, directed staged-reading, Chicago, IL, 2012.
• “At The Line,” Another Country Productions, directed staged-reading, Boston, 2010.
• “Isosceles,” SLAMBoston!, 2010; The Gecko in Winter Festival, Boston, 2010.
• Three scenes from “The Randomness of Nature,” 37th Annual Playwrights’ Platform Festival of New Plays, Boston, 2009.
• “Isosceles”, One-Acts Play Festival, Smith College, 2008.
• “Bare Chested” - directed staged-reading, Smith College, 2007.
RECOGNITIONS
• “The Butch Project, Part I”, Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Feminist Playwriting Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 2019
• “Maxine, And,” semi-finalist, Unicorn Theatre, 2017.
• “At The Line,” semi-finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2014. Finalist, Development award, InterAct Theatre, 2013. Finalist, The Ground Floor, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2013.
• “Tops,” semi-finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2012.
• “Isosceles,” finalist, University of Maryland-Baltimore, 2008.
• Residencies: AROHO Retreat, Abiquiu, NM, 2015; Southampton Arts, Southampton, NY, 2012, 2013; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2012, 2014; The Norman Mailer Writers Colony, Provincetown, MA, 2011.
FULL-LENGTH plays: Bare Chested, At The Line, Mad Cow, Tops, Maxine, And., The Butch Project, Part I . SHORT plays: Isosceles, A Grand Bargain, Sexism in Theatre. Script reader: Hartford Stage, Boston Theatre Marathon, New Repertory Theatre, Jane Chambers prize (ATHE). PUBLICATIONS: "Isosceles," Off the Rocks, Vol. 20, NewTown Writers Press, Chicago, IL, 2017; Program Notes, Tongue of A Bird, New Repertory Theatre, 2014; “Moving On” from At The Line, Scenes from a Diverse World, International Centre for Women Playwrights, 2013. SHORT FILM: "At The Line," Women Only Project, Amherst, MA, 2015. MEMBER: The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., International Centre for Women Playwrights: StageSource (Boston).