Kirk Lynn is a playwright who lives in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

. He graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School

Douglas MacArthur High School (San Antonio, Texas)

Douglas MacArthur High School is a public secondary school in a northeast suburb of San Antonio, Texas in the United States. The school, a part of the North East Independent School District serves students in ninth grade through twelfth grade, with admission based primarily on the locations of...

 in 1990. He is one of the founders of Rude Mechanicals

Rude Mechanicals (a.k.a. Rude Mechs)

Rude Mechanicals is a collaborative theater company operating out of Austin, Texas, USA. Founded in 1995, the company has created 25 original plays and produced another 25 premieres and workshops. Since 1999, they have run a theater space called The Off Center, where they premiere all of their work...

 theater company and he has been working with this collaborative theater company since 1996. He is married to the poet Carrie Fountain

Carrie Fountain

Carrie Fountain is an American poet.She is from Las Cruces, New Mexico.She was a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, and received Swink Magazines Award for Emerging Writers and the Marlboro Poetry Prize.She wrote for the Texas Observer,...

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Plays

2009

The Wrestling Patient (co-written with Anne Gottlieb and Katie Pearl)
Produced by Speakeasy Productions
Directed by Katie Pearl
Premiered at Boston Center for the Arts Roberts Studio Theatre, March 27 - April 11, 2009

2006

Decameron Day 7: Revenge
directed by Shawn Sides • created by Rude Mechs
April/May 2006 The Off Center (Austin, TX)

2004

Cherrywood: the modern comparable
directed by Shawn Sides • created by Rude Mechs
October/November 2004 The Off Center (Austin, TX)
June 2005 National Ensemble Theatre Festival (Blue Lake, CA)

2003

How late it was, how late
adapted from the Booker Prize winning novel by James Kelman

James Kelman

James Kelman is an influential writer of novels, short stories, plays and political essays. His novel A Disaffection was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989...

directed by Sarah Richardson • created by Rude Mechs
September 2003 The Off Center (Austin, TX)

2002

El Paraiso
directed by Shawn Sides • created by Rude Mechs
April/May 2002 The Off Center (Austin, TX)

2001

Requium for Tesla
directed by Shawn Sides • created by Rude Mechs
January/Feb 2001 The Off Center (Austin, TX)
February 2003 Fresh Terrain Festival (Austin, TX)

1998

¡Gringo! (a Frontera Fest production)
written by José Hernández and Kirk Lynn • directed by Catherine Glynn
February 1998 Hyde Park Theater

Crucks (Part II of the Faminly Trilogy)
directed by Shawn Sides
July/August 1998 Public Domain

Salivation (Part III of the Faminly Trilogy)
directed by Gavin Mundy
November 1998 Hyde Park Theater
September 2004 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (Philadelphia, PA)