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KENNETH LIN (1978 - ) |
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Nationality: Asian American Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Creative Artists Agency CA |
Kenneth Lin's plays said Said, Agency*, Po Boy Tango, Intelligence-Slave, Genius in Love and The Lynching of a White Man in Rural, CA have been premiered, commissioned and developed at theaters throughout the country, including the Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Northlight Theatre Company, South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Wilma Theatre, Arena Stage and P73 Productions. He is the winner of the Princess Grace Award, The Alliance Theatre's Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, The Williamstown Theatre's L. Arnold Weissberger Award and the Edgerton New Play Prize. Recently, he was recognized by the Dramatists Guild as a top "Playwright to be Watched." Lin is an alumnus of Cornell University, the U.S. Fulbright Fellowship Program and the Yale School of Drama where he was awarded the Cole Porter Prize for excellence in playwriting.
Plays by Kenneth Lin
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| 1st Produced: | The New Theater | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Yale School of Drama | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94989 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Science Fiction | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A Catholic priest, turned assassin is given a new assignment -- his next target is a computer that has become conscious and barracaded itself in the home of an autistic child. | |||||
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Genius In Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94990 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | This play, commissioned by the Wilma Theater, is written in verse. | |||||
Synopsis: | Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, fierce rivals and towers of the Enlightenment come together at the ends of their lives to complete the world's greatest invention -- a love potion. | |||||
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Intelligence-Slave | ||
| 1st Produced: | Neuhaus Stage | 2010 | ||||
Company: | The Alley Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98615 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Originally commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. | |||||
Synopsis: | Intelligence-Slave tells the story of Curt Herzstark, a concentration camp prisoner who was kept alive by the Nazis because he was rumored to have invented the world's first hand-held four function calculator - a great prize if it could be re-created. Caught between the thrill of technological discovery and the fear of rendering himself obsolete if he produces a working device, Curt's survival plan takes a turn when the Nazis introduce him to a wunderkind Hitler Youth with a soul that might be salvageable. | |||||
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Lynching of a White Man in Rural, CA, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94991 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned by Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. | |||||
Synopsis: | A well-heeled New England woman arrives in rural California to meet the men who murdered her son Aaron, a young man who renounced his Ivy-League pedigree and traveled the country as a migrant farm worker. | |||||
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Po Boy Tango | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northlight Theatre Company, Skokie, IL | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94992 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned by South Coast Rep, Costa Mesa, CA and featured in the 2007 Pacific Playwrights Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | A Taiwanese immigrant and an African-American soul food chef come together to cook a great banquet. In so doing, they investigate what happened ten years ago, when a child was saved, but a friendship was lost. | |||||
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said Said | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Hertz stage | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94993 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | An Algerian political prisoner and his French torturer are re-united, years later, to decipher a message written in a dying language that only they understand. | |||||
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