The Death of Huey Newton

Lynda Sturner is a playwright and actress, whose work has been produced in New York. Tokyo, Provincetown and Valdez Alaska. Her short play LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO won the Audience Choice award at The Edward Albee Last Frontier Theatre Festival and is published in Rowing to America An Anthology of New Short Plays by Women from The Women's Project. THE DEATH OF HUEY NEWTON was published by Broadway Play Publishing. THE VICTIM ART SHOW on a double bill with Jim Dalglish's LOVE AND DEATH AND ISABELLE STEWART GARDNER was named one of the top theater works of the year by the Cape Cod Times. Lynda appeared on Broadway in OLIVER and Off-Broadway in THE EFFECTS OF GAMMA RAYS ON THE MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS. On Cape Cod Lynda has appeared in dozens of shows during the last 10 years, including THE FOOD CHAIN, THE GULLS, THE EFFECTS OF GAMMA RAYS ON THE MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS, BINGO THE MUSICAL, and eight plays written by Meryl Cohn. She was the Artistic Director of the Provincetown Repertory Theatre and produced new innovative work including THE DIRECT LINE PLAY, CRAZY EYES and A GIRL CALLED DUSTY. She was the founding Artistic Director of Playwright's Forum, Inc. in New York City, was a member of the Actor's Studio Playwright's Unit, and the Women's Project. Lynda was also co-president of The League of Professional Theatre Women in New York.