Lynda Sturner
Trustee
Actor, Playwright, Director, Producer, Teacher, Artistic Director, Arts Administrator
Education: Boston University (BFA Acting) • Turtle Bay Music School- Drama therapist certificate • Studied acting with Lee Strasberg, Harold Clurman, Wynn Handman, and Julie Bavasso
Artistic Director: Triangle Productions NYC 1980-1991 • The Provincetown Repertory Theater – 2003 & 2004
Email: lyndasturner@me.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lynda.sturner.1
Residence: Truro, MA
Hometown: Buffalo, NY
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Lynda Sturner - As a playwright, Lynda’s work has been produced in New York, Tokyo, Provincetown, Cape Cod, and Valdez Alaska.
Her short play, Look What You Made Me Do won the Audience Choice award at The Edward Albee Last Frontier Theatre Festival and is published in Rowing To America an anthology of new short plays by from The Woman’s Project. The Death of Huey Newton was published by Broadway Play Publishing. The Victim Art Show on a double bill with Jim Dalglish’s Love and Death and Isabelle Stewart won honorable mention for best play on Cape Cod 2001.
Lynda appeared on Broadway in Oliver and off-Broadway in The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-The- Moon Marigolds. She was the voice of Barbara Bush on the Onion Radio Show. She has played Patsy in Bingo the Musical, the mother in Reason’s To Live and Come and Go by Samuel Beckett at the Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival.
She was the Artistic Director of the Provincetown Repertory Theatre and produced new innovative work including The Direct Line Play, Crazy Eyes and AGirl Called Dusty.
She was the founding Artistic Director of Playwright’s Forum, Inc. in New York City, was a member of the Actor’s Studio Playwright’s Unit and the Woman’s Project.
Lynda writes feature articles for TheaterMania.com and was co-president of The League of Professional Theatre Women in New York.
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No Show Baby - finalist in Eventide New Play contest
A Talented Woman written with Jim Dalglish, Produced at Cotuit Center For The Arts
Almost Sisters, despite readings at The Actor’s Studio, The Woman’s Project and Provincetown Theater, it remains what my son calls, one of my computer plays by which he means unproduced.
Short Plays with productions in Alaska, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York Provincetown and Dublin as well as at The Actor’s Studio, The Woman’s Project, and The Provincetown Theater.
Plays include:
The Death off Huey Newton
Oatmeal
Stuck Again
Look What You Made Me Do
A Twist of Lemon
The Victim Art Show
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Broadway - Oliver
Off Broadway - The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in the Moon Marigolds
Provincetown - The Allergist’s Wife, Bingo, and 7 wonderful Meryl Cohn plays, The Perfect Ganesh ,Gamma Rays again this time playing the part of the mother. ( 2009 one of the best actress award, Cape Cod Times)
Cotuit - Maxi in A Talented Woman, a play I wrote with Jim Dalglish.
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Best Actress Award at the 2015 International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival for her role in Super-lubricated, a short play she wrote with Jim Dalglish.
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Artistic Director, Triangle Productions NYC 1980-1991
Artistic Director, The Provincetown Repertory Theater – 2003,2004
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Journalist / Reporter - Theater Mania, Provincetown Banner, Provincetown Independent, Nite Life Exchange.
Teacher, Acting for Writers in NYC and Truro.
Wife
Mother
Grandmother
Roller Skater
waitress
Telemarketing
Volunteer on political campaigns
Saleslady
Taxi Dancer
"The Black Eye" by Jim Dalglish, "Look What You Made Me Do," by Lynda Sturner, and "Pulse" by Margaret Van Sant - from "Quickies: 4 Short Plays from Provincetown." Co-produced with Margaret Van Sant and Provincetown Dramatic Arts and Mark Cortale from Provincetown Art House. Venues: The Red Room, Provincetown, MA, Dublin, Ireland, The Art House, Provincetown, MA.
“To be alive is to be continually in the process of becoming. ”