Lynn is a collaborator, facilitator, performance-maker, and teacher. She uses a variety of arts-based tools drawn from applied theatre, theatre of the oppressed, and theatre for dialogue, as well as transformative learning and leadership.
“Lynn was AMAZING! She brings her whole presence to this work and freely shares that energy with those in the room. She has the ‘just right’ amount of loving detachment to guide a group through a session that builds as it goes, while keeping the group on track and focused. She was focused on OUR agenda, not hers. It was delightful to approach this kind of difficult work with a sense of play and lightness that in no way diminished or minimized the weight of the issues we were engaging in.”
Lynn is a Co-Founding Director of the Center for Imagining and Performing Justice, and a co-founder of The Performing Justice Project which devises original theatre with young people about individual and collective experiences of (in)justice. Lynn co-authored Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The Performing Justice Project which was published by Routledge and was honored with the Distinguished Book Award in 2021 by the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.
Previously, Lynn was the Senior Director of School-Based Programs at Creative Action, a creative youth development organization where she used theatre to activate youth and communities around issues relevant to their lives.
Prior to Creative Action, Lynn spent 12 years as the Theatre for Dialogue Specialist with Voices Against Violence at the University of Texas at Austin, where she taught and devised interactive performances with students about consent, interpersonal violence, and healthy relationships.
Click here to download Lynn’s CV which includes highlights of her faciliatation collaborations, performance-making work and her teaching and training leadership over the past thirty years.
Using theatre as a tool for imagining justice, building community, and fostering critical dialogue. Thinking through big questions - together.