Mary Lynn Dobson (Playwright and Director)

Mary Lynn has worked in many facets of the theatre as a director, actor and playwright. Her newest comedy Skin Deep, was a winner in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival and will be published by Samuel French in 2011. Skin Deep was also performed and named a winner of the Shortened Attention Span One-Act Festival and the Frostburg University One-Act Competition. Mary Lynn’s other work, Two on the Aisle, Three in a Van, garnered the Summer Theatre Citation for Outstanding New Play as well as being awarded Best Ensemble Cast in the 2009 NYC Fringe Festival.  The play was also honored at the University of Northern Kentucky as a winner of the Y.E.S. New Play Festival and from there went on to receive its professional premiere at the Henlopen Theatre Project.  Mary Lynn returned to NKU where her comedy, Dracula, the Untold Story, was staged at the NKU Summer Theatre and received its professional debut in a sold out run. She has also penned the family comedy, The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood has had productions mounted all throughout the US, the UK, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Austria, making her one of Dramatic Publishing's most produced playwrights. As a director some credits include: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood, She Loves Me, Sylvia, Two on the Aisle, Three in a Van, My Fair Lady, Rounding Third, Urinetown, Once Upon a Mattress, The Pillowman, The Odd Couple, Guys and Dolls and Skin Deep.