Kirk Lynn is a founder and co-producing artistic director of the theatre collective Rude Mechs in Austin, Texas. With the Rudes, he has written and adapted more than 15 plays, including Lipstick Traces, El Paraiso and Requiem for Tesla. In 2006, the Foundry Theatre in New York City produced the world premiere of Lynn's play Major Bang: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dirty Bomb at St. Ann's Warehouse. He is currently working on an adaptation of The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, which will premiere in Boston in the spring of 2007. Lynn's next project with the Rudes will be The Method Gun, a search for the mythic acting exercise that took the life of great American acting instructor, Stella Burden.
