Educator
Lynn teaches at the University of Texas at Austin as adjunct faculty. She has taught a variety of courses, mostly in the Department of Theatre and Dance, but also courses that are cross-listed between multiple departments. She also teaches workshops, institutes and professional development.
Arts Integration for Multidisciplinary Contexts is a required course for education majors introducing the art form and language of theatre, visual art and music as teaching tools for the classroom. Arts Integration asks students to experience the arts for learning and then to practice using the arts to teach specific content.
Theatre for Dialogue, an undergraduate and graduate course cross listed in three departments at the University of Texas at Austin explores loneliness and the use of art and theatre to create meaningful social connection. This course culminates in an original performance co-created by students that normalizes talking about loneliness and asks audience participants to consider how they engage in practices of belonging.
The Performing Justice Project (PJP) is a graduate/undergraduate class exploring the framework of PJP: Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth. This course explores tools used to create original theatre with young people about experiences of justice and injustice related to identity. Includes community-engaged residency
Lynn teaches at the university level as well as through workshops, retreats and training institutes. She creates intentional education experiences that are reciprocal, co-intentional, and co-created. She uses the tools of theatre to investigate and respond to issues that are important to individual and collective experiences.
Lynn also works with Teaching Artists in all disciplines, focusing on developmentally appropriate arts-based strategies, creative youth development, and strengthening facilitation and teaching skills. .
Click here to download Lynn’s CV which includes highlights of her facilitation collaborations, performance-making work and her teaching and leadership over the past three decades.
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.