Lynda Crawford
(Updated: 12/9/2025) Lynda’s plays include THE AUDIT, Urban Stages, NYC, February–March 2025, and earlier developmental productions at HB Playwrights Theatre and Emerging Artists Theatre's New Works Series; DUSK!, Spark Theatre Festival, November 2023, and winner (with choreographer Kat Files) of the Women in Arts and Media Collaboration Award 2025; NIGHT SHADOWS—OR, ONE HUNDRED MILLION VOICES SHOUTING, On Women Festival, Irondale, Brooklyn, NY, 2020; KP 1968 (with Peter Reich), Fenimore Arts Museum, Cooperstown, NY, 2020; STARS OUT OF BALANCE, Planet Connections Festivity, 2018; ROJO VERDE, Planet Connections, 2017, recipient of the Greener Planet award; PILLOW OF TEARS, Women Playwrights International 2015, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and William Inge Theatre Festival 2017, and In Her Name Festival, 2016; STRANGE RAIN, FringeNYC, 2013, awarded Overall Excellence in Playwriting; SECRETS OF THE BIRDS, Samuel French Short Play Festival, 2006, finalist; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR (with Gary Kupper), FringeNYC, 2002. Lynda’s play THE TRUTH GAME is published by Next Stage Press. Other writings have appeared in newspapers, journals, and in the book TITTERS: THE FIRST COLLECTION OF HUMOR BY WOMEN (Macmillan). Lynda lives in NYC and is an adjunct instructor at SUNY/Empire State University where she leads the Playwriting Lab. She is a grateful member of K/Q Playwrights, HB Playwrights Forum with Bill Quigley, the Actors Studio PDU, Honor Roll, and the League of Professional Theatre Women. Lynda received an MFA in Creative Writing (Playwriting) from Brooklyn College in 2001.
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MORE ABOUT ME
I feel most like myself when wearing a braid, writing in my journal, holding my cat, listening.
WHAT I'M WORKING ON
A play about a murdered journalist, PHOEBE'S SHADOW, and the threat to journalists today. And I'm also working on a musical with Gary Kupper, LONG AGO SONG, about a 97-year-old Black poet in a nursing home whose memories go back and forth between the present and the late 1920s–1940s of Tin Pan Alley, the Harlem Renaissance, and World War II; we plan to bring that into the Spark Theatre Festival in the fall of 2026.
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