LYNNE S. BRANDON
17 Appleton Street Watertown, MA 02472
617-924-9903 LSBrandon@igc.org
THEATRE EDUCATION
- MFA in Playwriting, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 2008.
- Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive, Washington, DC, 2006.
- Dramatic Monologue - James Lecesne, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, 2004, 2005.
- Playwriting - Sarah Ruhl, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, 2004.
- The 10-Minute Play - Sinan Ünel, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA, 2004.
- Staging Women’s Lives - Kate Aspengren, Iowa Writers Workshop, Iowa City, IA, 2002.
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.
- “Maxine, And.”, Athena Reads reading, Athena Theatre Company, New York, NY 2017. Rad Fem Arts reading, Boston, MA 2017.
- “Mad Cow,” workshop production by Rad Fem Arts, Boston, MA 2016.
- “Tops,” directed staged-reading, Boston, MA, 2015.
- “Sexism in Theatre,” We Are Theatre revue, Guerrilla Girls on Tour, New York, September, 2012.
- “Mad Cow,” Pride Films and Plays, directed staged-reading, Chicago, IL, July 2012.
- “At The Line,” Another Country Productions, directed staged-reading, Boston, MA, 2010.
- “Isosceles,” SLAMBoston!, October 2010 and The Gecko in Winter Festival, January 2010.
- Three scenes from “The Randomness of Nature,” The 37th Annual Playwrights’ Platform Festival of New Plays, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Boston, MA, June 2009.
- “Isosceles”, One-Acts Play Festival, Smith College, April 2008. “A Triangle Has Three Sides” - staged-readings of three short plays,” Smith College, December 2007.
- “Bare Chested” - full-length play, directed staged-reading, Smith College, May 2007.
- “She Doth Protest” - short play, Northampton (MA) Playwrights Lab reading, November 2006.
- “Bare Chested” - monologue, presented by Atlantis Playmakers in Lowell, MA as a selection in the 2006 Short Attention Span PlayFEST, directed and performed by Patti Hughes, July 2006.
- “History” - reading, University of Massachusetts senior seminar, Amherst, MA, April 2006.
- “Under the High Chair” and “Noon,” Payomet Theatre, Truro, MA, August 2004.
RECOGNITIONS
- “The Butch Project, Part I”, Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Feminist Playwriting Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 2019. (announced on August 6, 2019)
- “At The Line,” semi-finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2014. Finalist, Development award, InterAct Theatre, 2013. Finalist, The Ground Floor development program, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2013.
- “Tops,” semi-finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2012.
- “Isosceles,” finalist, IN10 Festival, University of Maryland-Baltimore, 2008.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Residencies: Southampton Arts, Southampton, NY, 2012 (Stephen Adly Guirgis), 2013 (Ellen McLaughlin), 2017 (Emily Mann); Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018; AROHO Retreat, Abiquiu, NM, 2015 (Ellen McLaughlin); The Norman Mailer Writers Colony, Provincetown, MA, 2011.
Script reader: Jane Chambers Award, ATHE, 2014; New Repertory Theatre, Watertown, MA, 2011- 2013; Boston Theatre Marathon 2011-2016; Hartford Stage, Hartford, Connecticut, 2006–2008.
Lighting design: “Winter Requiem” by Rachel Lerner-Ley, One-Acts Play Festival, Smith College, April 2008. “Antigone,”lighting co-design, Smith College, December, 2006.
Publications: “Isosceles” in 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.
Film: ‘No More’ scene from “At The Line,” Women Only Productions, 2015.
The playwright is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., the International Centre for Women Playwrights, and StageSource.