Robert Lynn

Robert Lynn

Robert Lynn's full-length Christmas-themed comedy, The ReGifters, has been performed in Dubuque, Iowa (two productions), and Ukiah California. The play is the winner of the New American Comedy Festival and is published by Heuer Publishing, as is With Friends Like These. The Stupid Economy, a one-woman show, has appeared in the United Solo Artists Festival at Theatre Row in New York. Mother's Wishes...
Robert Lynn's full-length Christmas-themed comedy, The ReGifters, has been performed in Dubuque, Iowa (two productions), and Ukiah California. The play is the winner of the New American Comedy Festival and is published by Heuer Publishing, as is With Friends Like These. The Stupid Economy, a one-woman show, has appeared in the United Solo Artists Festival at Theatre Row in New York. Mother's Wishes won the audience favorite award at the Aloha Performing Arts Company's Original Play Festival. His ten-minute play, Palindrome Love was a winner in the Short & Sweet Sydney 10-minute play festival, was performed in Sydney Australia, and was performed in the Washington DC Capital Fringe Festival, and at the Fury Theatre in Chicago. It was also a semifinalist in the Heartland Festival (Normal IL), where his play, A Good Man, was a 2010 winner. Other writing credits include the Iowa Play Festival, and the Cedar Lane Stage & Sandy Spring Theatre Group's One Act Festival (Bethesda, MD). He is a member of the Dramatists' Guild of America, Inc.

Plays

  • Mother's Wishes by Robert Lynn
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: Alzheimer's Disease, dysfunctional family + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: Alzheimer's Disease, dysfunctional family, dementia, prescription drugs
    Teresa is concerned for her mother. Her siblings, Kevin, a doctor, and Michele, a neurotic, are not so concerned. Mom tends to drive Michele crazy, and Kevin just tries to avoid contact with her. One by one, Mom embarrasses, frustrates and enrages her children. She’s always been eccentric, but now her memory is starting to fade and enhance her lunacy.

    These three siblings who don't get along...
    Teresa is concerned for her mother. Her siblings, Kevin, a doctor, and Michele, a neurotic, are not so concerned. Mom tends to drive Michele crazy, and Kevin just tries to avoid contact with her. One by one, Mom embarrasses, frustrates and enrages her children. She’s always been eccentric, but now her memory is starting to fade and enhance her lunacy.

    These three siblings who don't get along are forced together by their repentant mother who has resolved to bring them together to make up for her poor parenting.
  • A Good Man by Robert Lynn
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: family, secrets + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: family, secrets, Sisters, German, ghosts
    In the early 1990s, Anne, 50, lives in an apartment in Chicago with her German immigrant mother. Mother is visited regularly by her dead husband, Walter, who was killed by a drunk driver almost thirty years ago. Anne’s sister, Katie, 40, stops by often to visit with her mother and attempt to persuade her sister to move out. The three women have their own versions of history and struggle to maintain family...
    In the early 1990s, Anne, 50, lives in an apartment in Chicago with her German immigrant mother. Mother is visited regularly by her dead husband, Walter, who was killed by a drunk driver almost thirty years ago. Anne’s sister, Katie, 40, stops by often to visit with her mother and attempt to persuade her sister to move out. The three women have their own versions of history and struggle to maintain family secrets. The truth comes out, as each of them sees it, on the thirtieth anniversary of Walter’s death.
  • Baby Jesus and the Queen of Hearts by Robert Lynn
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: abortion
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: abortion
    A mother and daughter clash when the daughter tells her mother and her mother's card-playing friends that she is pregnant. Long-time friendships and a mother and daughter's love are put to the test as everyone weighs in on what should be done.
  • The Man in the Radio by Robert Lynn
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6–20
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: child abuse, single parent + 3 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: child abuse, single parent, bullying, imaginary friend, radio
    A young girl, bullied at home and at school, finds solace in her imagined relationship with a local DJ, who talks to her through her radio.
  • The Mathematics of Love by Robert Lynn
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: love, Relationships + 3 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: love, Relationships, Sisters, science, love triangle
    A shy college professor falls for her older colleague, but loses out to her older sister before she makes her play.
    The three-way tension strains all the relationships until the sisters learn about what is truly important to them.
  • Stop the Monsanity! by Robert Lynn
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2–7
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    Genre: comedy, political + 1 more
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    Keyword: pesticides, herbicides + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, political, romantic comedy
    Keyword: pesticides, herbicides, Monsanto
    Written to be performed by one man and one woman, this political comedy can be performed by up to seven actors.
    Elise has been promoted to spokesperson for the largest social justice non-profit in the country. Her husband Michael has just learned that his job as publicist will now be limited to only one client--Monsanto. This puts the couple at odds as they try to negotiate their new lives, complicated...
    Written to be performed by one man and one woman, this political comedy can be performed by up to seven actors.
    Elise has been promoted to spokesperson for the largest social justice non-profit in the country. Her husband Michael has just learned that his job as publicist will now be limited to only one client--Monsanto. This puts the couple at odds as they try to negotiate their new lives, complicated by divorced next door neighbor Kyle, who has his eyes on Elise, Michael's clueless assistant Darcy, Michael's unforgiving boss, Joan, Elise's steadfast boss Sage, and a mysterious corporate insider who taunts Michael.
  • Medication Nation by Robert Lynn
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: gun violence, SSRIs + 4 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: gun violence, SSRIs, Drugs, pharmaceuticals, mass shooting, prescription drugs
    After walking in on a school shooting, a man goes on a crusade against prescription drugs as he tries to repair his strained relationship with his wife and avoid the pitfalls of going after a deep-pocketed opponent.
  • The Stupid Economy by Robert Lynn
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1–7
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: economy
    Genre: comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: economy
    The Stupid Economy is a one-woman show, a comedy/drama which explores how our country's current economic condition is experienced by six very different women. Pam Babler is a clueless robo-signer, called to explain her actions at a deposition. Carolyn is a single mother who falls in a deep hole when she uses drugs to cope with her husband’s death and her need to find work. Summer is a young, attractive,...
    The Stupid Economy is a one-woman show, a comedy/drama which explores how our country's current economic condition is experienced by six very different women. Pam Babler is a clueless robo-signer, called to explain her actions at a deposition. Carolyn is a single mother who falls in a deep hole when she uses drugs to cope with her husband’s death and her need to find work. Summer is a young, attractive, former drug rep working the system and trying to find the job she knows is out there for her. LaMonica Johnson struggles through a series of "odd" jobs, looking for legitimate work and trying to keep her five daughters in line. Louise is an old-money matron who abhors how the country has changed. Cindy Trenette is a spendthrift housewife forced to reform her habits when faced with an unusual repossession. A nameless corporate insider narrates the show, telling the audience the truth about how corporations and government operate. The characters return at the end to give their thoughts on how we got into this mess, and how we get out.
  • The ReGifters by Robert Lynn
    Cast: 
    9
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    Genre: comedy, holiday
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    Keyword: christmas, gifts
    Genre: comedy, holiday
    Keyword: christmas, gifts
    A couple regifts a Christmas present they can't identify, only to learn of its incredible value. They set out to reclaim the gift, but they're not the only ones who regifted it. The madcap pursuit ends in an important lesson about friendship, real wealth and the value of a gift truly given.
  • The Mother Load by Robert Lynn
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: Mother-in-Law
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: Mother-in-Law
    Lauren Cunningham has a problem. Her meddling, God-fearing mother-in-law lives with her and her husband Jeff, "temporarily," but it’s been four years already. Now Lauren's hard partying, slovenly mother is moving in, also "temporarily."

    Their mothers' quirks and idiosyncrasies are pushing them to the limit, and the stress sucks the romance right out of their bedroom...
    Lauren Cunningham has a problem. Her meddling, God-fearing mother-in-law lives with her and her husband Jeff, "temporarily," but it’s been four years already. Now Lauren's hard partying, slovenly mother is moving in, also "temporarily."

    Their mothers' quirks and idiosyncrasies are pushing them to the limit, and the stress sucks the romance right out of their bedroom. Jeff and Lauren band together to get their misbehaving mothers in line before their lives explode.
  • The Heart Knows by Robert Lynn
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: breakup, Relationships
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: breakup, Relationships
    Sunday, late afternoon. Summer. Present day. Dan is a goofy, shy office worker in his early thirties. He broke up with his girlfriend Carolyn last night, and has been drinking ever since. Dan and Carolyn each talk to their Inner Selves as they try to hash out exactly what happened and make sense of their lives apart.
  • Like Crazy by Robert Lynn
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: Seniors
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Seniors
    A couple bickers over the sixtieth anniversary of a secret they kept from the world...well, one of them did.
  • The Coriolis Effect by Robert Lynn
    Recommendations: 11
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: marriage, family + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: marriage, family, existential
    A man experiences an existential crisis after getting his hand stuck in a toilet.
  • Palindrome Love by Robert Lynn
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Relationships, breakup + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Relationships, breakup, couples
    An absurdist microcosm of the beginning and ending of a relationship. The lines of the ending of the relationship are the same as the lines of the beginning of the relationship, but delivered in reverse order.
  • The Back Porch Test by Robert Lynn
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: young love, new relationship
    Genre: comedy, drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: young love, new relationship
    A young woman tests the honesty of her new boyfriend by serving him awful-tasting food and drink, then breaks up with him when he lies and says he likes it. But she learns that honesty is not always the best policy. Sometimes kindness is more important.