Brooklyn College
Lynn M. Thomson Associate Professor in Dramaturgy and American Theater lthomson@brooklyn.cuny.edu Lynn M. Thomson is a dramaturg, director, teacher, scholar and arts advocate. She received a MFA in Directing from Temple University and a Ph.D. from New York University. For the last twenty years, she has devoted herself primarily to the development and production of new American plays. As Associate Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Theatre Company, she created/ administrated "Stages," a new play festival. 1991-95, she was Dramaturg at Circle Repertory Company, where she worked with Craig Lucas, Paula Vogel, Joyce Carol Oates, Regina Taylor, Anne Bogart, among many other significant American writers and directors. She has been Dramaturg on numerous productions, including Rent (Broadway and Off-Broadway). In theatres throughout the USA, she has directed over 100 productions, as well as innumerable readings and workshops of new plays. Theatres include The Philadelphia Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and Circle Repertory Company. She co-founded and edited The Script Exchange for Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. She co-authored the first set of professional employment guidelines for dramaturgs. She has taught at New York University, University of Evansville, and 1997-2001, headed the MFA in Dramaturgy at Brooklyn College, where she is now a tenured Associate Professor. Her articles have been published in Journal of American Drama and Theater, Theatre Topics, American Theatre, Parabasis, and Lincoln Center Review. Her book Between the Lines: The Process of Dramaturgy, co-authored with Judith Rudakoff, was published in 2002. mailto:lthomson@brooklyn.cuny.edushapeimage_2_link_0
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