About the Fellow

Lynn Thomson is a theater director and dramaturg from New York City. She is the founding artistic director of America-in-Play, a theater company that creates new plays based upon historical American plays and theatrical conventions. She is also a professor in the theater department of Brooklyn College. She was associated with the Philadelphia Theater Company from 1984-1994 first as associate artistic director and then as artistic associate. From 1991-95, she served as dramaturg for the Circle Repertory Company in New York. She has directed plays for off-Broadway and regional theater companies throughout the country including: the Cherry Lane Theater, Hudson Guild Theater, Theatre Four, Living Image Arts, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, The Playwrights Center and Playwrights Horizons. While at AAS in 2013, she conducted research for a play titled The Time Traveler's Trip to Niagara Falls.