Playwrights & Performers: Kirk Lynn
Kirk Lynn is a playwright and an artistic director with the Rude Mechanicals theater collective in Austin, Texas. Kirk’s play Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra starts performances at Playwrights Horizons on Saturday, March 29. He wrote the libretto for Bum Phillips All American Opera at La MaMa now through Sunday, March 30.
We chat about his current shows plus Stop Hitting Yourself, presented by the Rude Mechs at Lincoln Center earlier this year; the origin story of the Rude Mechs and their process for creating devised theater; and his unique ability to withstand shame and despair.