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Lynne Kaufman

LYNNE KAUFMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    PMA Literary and Film Management Inc  

Lynne Kaufman is an accomplished playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. Her first novel Slow Hands was published by Mira Books in June 2003. Her second novel Wild Womens' Weekend will follow in June 2004. Lynne is the author of eleven full-length plays which have been produced in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Louisville etc. at such Theatres as the Magic Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville,and Theatreworks. Her plays have won many awards including the Nea/Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays and Theatreworks Best New Play in California. Her short stories have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and McCalls.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Acid Test: The Many Incarnations of Ram Dass         Couch, The         Daisy In the Dreamtime         Dottie And the Boys         Fakes         Fifty/Fifty         Last Game Show, The         Magician's Choice         Next Marilyn, The         Our Lady Of the Desert         Roshi         Secret Museum, The         Shooting Simone         Speaking In Tongues         Yellow House, The

Acid Test: The Many Incarnations of Ram Dass

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The Marsh, Berkeley    2012

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solo show

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Couch, The

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the play takes place at Carl Jung's home on a lake in Switzerland. It is Sunday afternoon, and Sigmund Freud, joining his protege for lunch, finds him in conflict with his long-suffering wife, Emma, because of Jung's infatuation with a lovely young patient/pupil, Toni Laufer. Repressed in his own sexual feelings, Freud disapproves of Jung's dalliance, but their dispute only hints at the larger differences that will shortly divide them-as Jung has finally decided to split with his mentor and develop his own (and to Freud, radical) theories of the subconscious. Mingling lighthearted domestic scenes, with moments of challenging intellectual exchange, the play eventually resolves the problems it has raised with novel inventiveness and good humor as Emma agrees to limit herself to running the household and tending the children (thereby gaining time to pursue her own career); Toni accepts a position as Jung's assistant (and mistress); and Freud departs, secure in the conviction that Jung's new direction of thought in no way diminishes the magnitude of his own accomplishments.

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Comedy Drama Comedy

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Daisy In the Dreamtime

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In 1913, an Irish emigre, Daisy Bates, pitched a tent in the Australian outback and lived there with the aborigines for 30 years. She fed them, doctored them, and recorded their stories and rituals. She was the first white woman to be initiated into aboriginal dreamtime and her only enemies were the Trans-Australian Railway and annie Lock, the Lutheran missionary. Daisy's people called her Kabbarli, the great white spirit of the never-never - this is her story and theirs . . . the play explores Daisy's life and why she abandoned her husband, child and all the comforts of civilization to live in the bleakest place on earth with the most primitive people and proclaim herself blessed. It traces the spiritual quest of a woman in a culture that is free of the two great obsessions of modern civilization - the pressure of time and the accumulation of goods

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85 min Play/Drama

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Dottie And the Boys

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Fakes

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Fifty/Fifty

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Last Game Show, The

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-    1998

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Magician's Choice

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Next Marilyn, The

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Our Lady Of the Desert

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-    1990

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Roshi

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-    1987

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Secret Museum, The

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Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, Ca    2005

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Shooting Simone

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as young lovers, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre promised to tell each other everything--and then Olga arrived. Forty years later, that erotic visitation is scrutinized by an American film-maker, who's come to Paris with her boyfriend to "shoot" Simone. By examining the changing face of feminism, this romantic comedy explores the politics of love, creativity and commitment

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Genre:
Two acts Play/Drama

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Speaking In Tongues

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-    1989

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Yellow House, The

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Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, Ca    2006

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