Lynda Sturner: Actor, Director, Playwright, Journalist

LYNDA STURNER is an actor, director, playwright, journalist, and arts administrator.

Sturner’s acting credits include:   “Oliver” on Broadway in 1964.  Off- Broadway: “Little Mary Sunshine,” “The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-In-the-Moon Marigolds,” “The Food Chain,” “The Tale of the Allergists Wife,” “The Gulls,” “A Perfect Ganesh,” and “The Effects of Gamma Rays…” — this time playing Beatrice, the mother, and winning the Cape Cod Times’ Best Actor  Award. She also won the Eve Gore Booth Award  at the Dublin Gay International Theater Festival for her performance in “Super -Lubricated,” a play she wrote with Jim Dalglish.

Sturner’s plays have been produced in New York, Dublin, Toyoko, Valdez, and Cape Cod. “A Talented Woman,” written with Jim Dalglish, won the Kaplan Prize at Eventide Arts and was produced at Cotuit Center for the Arts.  Her plays include “Remote Control Oatmeal,” “The Death of Huey Newton,” and “Look What You Made Me Do.” She was a member of the Actors Studio Playwrights Unit, The Woman’s Project workshop, and the BMI Musical Theater Workshop. She is currently a member of Helltown Players, a new theater group of Cape Cod playwrights.

Sturner was the founder and artist director at Playwright’s Forum in New York  and  artistic director at The Provincetown Rep.

She worked as a journalist at TheaterMania, the Provincetown Banner and the Provincetown Independent.

Sturner is currently working on a play, “No Show Baby,” and is directing “A Part of the Noise,” a play about Abstract Expressionist legend Franz Kline, written  by his nephew Carl Kline.

Sturner received a BFA from Boston University’s Theater School in 1963.The videos below were recorded via Zoom, are organized by Success Factor, and run between 30 seconds and 8 minutes. Click on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.