"Shameless Hussy"  is a staged reading of a play by Lynne Kaufman

The play is inspired by the  life of  Anais Nin, a world famous diarist, whose twin passions are making love and writing about it. Arwen Anderson plays Anais Nin. Johnny Moreno plays all the men in her life. Phoebe Moyer directs. Performance is followed by a Q and A with playwright,cast and director.  In collaboration with Playwright Lab. Note: Explicit sexual language 

Lynne Kaufman is delighted  to present her new work at The Mill Valley Library, where she co-directs The Playwrights Lab. She received a B.A. from Hunter College and an M.A. from Columbia University as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar. She is the author of  twenty full length prize winning  plays produced nationally at such venues as The Magic Theatre, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Theatreworks Silicon Valley, The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles and The Abington Theatre in New York City.  She has had five plays produced at The Marsh Theatre: “Acid Test”, “Two Minds”, “Poetic Justice”, “Extreme Acts, and “Who Killed Sylvia Plath”, which won  The Marsh’s Solo Show International  Festival  First Prize.

“William Blake in Hollywood,” was produced by the Neil Simon Festival Theatre as the winner of its Best New Comedy Competition. “Daisy in the Dreamtime” was premiered by The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, won The Rella Lossy Playwright’s Award, and was published in Women Playwrights: Best New Plays and by Dramatic Publishing.  She was the recipient of The Otis Guernsey Outstanding New Voice in American Theatre Award from The William Inge Theatre Festival. “Shooting Simone” premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival and received six subsequent regional productions. It was published by Dramatic Publishing.

Four of her plays premiered at The Magic Theatre including “The Couch”, which won  The Glickman Award for Best New Play in San Francisco and “Speaking in Tongues”, which  won a  Kennedy Center/NEA/  Fund for New  American Plays Award.  Her play “Our Lady of the Desert” won Theatreworks ‘Best New Play in California Award” She has published four novels and numerous short stories.  Her latest novel “Divine Madness” was published in May 2022 by Tailwinds Press.

She teaches writing at The Fromm Institute and at OLLI San Francisco State.