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. He was the USA Jeanne and Michael Klein Fellow in 2011 in Theater Arts. Kirk's play Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra will premiere at Playwright's Horizon in April of 2014. Kirk wrote the first draft of Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra at the MacDowell 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 a barber.
Kirk Lynn
Studios
Garland
Kirk Lynn worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…