Kirk Lynn

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)

• “WRENCHING AND RACY. Lynn steers us steadily into challenging terrain under Anne Kauffman's thoughtful direction.”

  — Tom Sellar, Village voice

• “RIVETING. It's about secrets, trust, and communication. Kirk Lynn is an intriguing, promising and wise playwright who keeps distracting you until he is ready to reveal his hand. Discerning playgoers will want to discover it themselves.”

  — Steven Suskin, Huffington Post

• “The amusingly wry Rebecca Henderson gives a stylish performance.”

  — Charles Isherwood, New York Times

• “From the prolific imagination of Kirk Lynn springs this comedy about love and sexual history. The sharp Anne Kauffman (Belleville) directs ”

  — Time Out New York

• “Lynn writes tremendous scenes – the fights feel so unchoreographed and furious, you expect family therapists to be waiting backstage. ”

  — Helen Shaw, Time Out New York