Plays Written by Kirk Lynn:
EFFECTIVE MAGIC
PRAYER CIRCLE
THE FIRST LINE OF DANTE’S INFERNO
Synopses:
EFFECTIVE MAGIC (6p) – Four down and out teens from a small Texas town decide to form a coven, but their only spell book is Steven Covey’s 7 Habits of Effective people. With this magic they learn to destroy bullies, attract love, and save themselves from poverty.
PRAYER CIRCLE (2m 4f) – A dying man asks his grown son to pray for him. The son is a non-believer, but he and a group of friends attempt to take the request seriously and an accidental prayer circle is formed, but the prayers begin changing their world, inside and out.
THE FIRST LINE OF DANTE’S INFERNO (2m, 1f) – Ann hikes into the woods where her sister went missing, impulsively takes up residence in a small squatter’s cabin, and meets two men who allow her continue her search deep in the wilderness but not without negotiating terms that will change her life. Published in the Paris Review!
Bio:
Kirk Lynn is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. One of the five Artistic Directors of Rude Mechs theatre collective, Lynn has written and adapted over twenty plays, including the critically acclaimed Lipstick Traces, The Method Gun and, most recently, Not Every Mountain. Together the Rudes are working on a performance app: Cyrano Plays, by which audiences can be fed lines from their smartphones to produce their own personal plays.
Lynn’s debut novel, Rules for Werewolves, was published in 2015 by Melville House Books. He’s currently adapting the novel for the screen and is at work on a second novel, The Vow, about a man who takes a vow of silence on a whim, without first checking with his wife or employer, but even as he creates trouble, the vow deepens his understanding of peace and quiet. Kirk is at work on a couple of other film projects and has a small bouquet of pilots as well.
Lynn earned his MFA as a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers and is an Associate Professor of playwriting at the University of Texas in Austin, where he lives with his wife, poet and novelist Carrie Fountain, and their two children.