Kirk Lynn

Kirk Lynn

Playwright

Kirk Lynn  lives in Austin, TX with his wife, the poet Carrie Fountain and their children, Olive and Judah. Kirk writes plays, generally with the Rude Mechs theater collective. He's one of six artistic directors for the Rudes, whose new work, Stop Hitting Yourself, played at LCT3 in January-February 2014. Kirk is the Head of the Playwriting and Directing Area in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. Kirk was the USA Jeanne and Michael Klein Fellow in 2011 in Theater Arts. Kirk wrote the first draft of Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra at the MacDowell Colony in summer of 2012. Kirk is a Texan and likes to hunt and fish and camp and tell jokes with his Dad, who knows a lot of jokes because he's barber. (As of January 2014)

Appears in
Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra