PJ Lynch

Patricia Lynch
Writer’s Bio

Patricia (Patty) Lynch’s representative dramatic works include CAPE MAY, AMERICAN SUBLIME, HOUSE OF BALLS, and MRS. MACKENZIE’S BEGINNERS’ GUIDE TO THE BLUES (co-written with Kent Stephens). Lynch’s plays have been produced in major theater centers including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and seen on tour in eleven states. InterAct Theatre, Stage Left Theatre, Minneapolis Fringe Festival, First Stage Theater, Illusion Theater, the Tony-Award winning Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, Great American History Theater, 7 Stages, Horizon Theater, Georgia Repertory, Brass Tacks Theatre, Stepping Stone, and Stages Theater have all professionally produced her work. She also has participated in play development...

Patricia Lynch
Writer’s Bio

Patricia (Patty) Lynch’s representative dramatic works include CAPE MAY, AMERICAN SUBLIME, HOUSE OF BALLS, and MRS. MACKENZIE’S BEGINNERS’ GUIDE TO THE BLUES (co-written with Kent Stephens). Lynch’s plays have been produced in major theater centers including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and seen on tour in eleven states. InterAct Theatre, Stage Left Theatre, Minneapolis Fringe Festival, First Stage Theater, Illusion Theater, the Tony-Award winning Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, Great American History Theater, 7 Stages, Horizon Theater, Georgia Repertory, Brass Tacks Theatre, Stepping Stone, and Stages Theater have all professionally produced her work. She also has participated in play development programs with staged readings and workshop productions at the Jungle Theater, Tony winning Playwrights Horizons, Circle Repertory, Cincinnati Playhouse, Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater Projects, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Madison Repertory, PlayLabs, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Women’s Project, and the Tony winning New York Theater Workshop. Lynch has been an artist in residence at the Williamstown Theater Festival, nationally recognized Iowa Writers Workshop, and the University of Georgia at Athens.

Lynch has won the Robert L. Stevens award (with Kent Stephens) for New American Plays from the Kennedy Center, two national Jerome Emerging Writers Fellowships,Voices of the Prairie fellowship with the Women’s Theater Project, three travel studies grants from General Mills/Dayton Hudson, Minnesota State Arts Board grants, and has been a finalist for the L. Arnold Weissberger Award among others. She was most recently awarded the 2013 Spotlight Award for Best Original Script with CAPE MAY,

HOUSE OF BALLS is part of the Los Angeles Library’s New Play Collection, BECAUSE PRETTY GIRLS AREN’T THAT SMART was published by Contemporary Script Service, CAPTAIN EDDIE B. BROWN’S TRAVELLING ALL STAR YOKELS is part of the Plays for Young Audiences Collection, Her work is also included in Best Monologues of 2006.
Lynch’s debut novel, DECATUR, is scheduled to be published by the highly respected independent Traverse Press out of Toronto, Canada in June 2014 as an e-book.

Scripts

CAPE MAY

by PJ Lynch

Cast Size

6

Genre

dark comedy

After her husband's untimely death, Agatha is forced to sell their Cape May summer Cottage. Thirty years later, her younger daughter, Rosie, returns and in a bid to win her mother's long withheld affection buys back the Cottage. A generation later, Rosie's own daughters have to convince their ailing mother to leave her beloved home- and decide the Cottage's ultimate fate, Witness to this is all the Cottage...

After her husband's untimely death, Agatha is forced to sell their Cape May summer Cottage. Thirty years later, her younger daughter, Rosie, returns and in a bid to win her mother's long withheld affection buys back the Cottage. A generation later, Rosie's own daughters have to convince their ailing mother to leave her beloved home- and decide the Cottage's ultimate fate, Witness to this is all the Cottage himself, warm, witty, loving and very much alive. In Cape May, the house can truly speak and has a remarkable story to tell.