Lynn Snyder

Couples in Crisis: Five Plays Lynn Snyder

Publisher Marketing: Lovers And Other Furnishings In the wee hours of a New Years Day, four men find a tantalizing, bizarre invitation on their answering machines from a woman each of them used to live with, asking them to retrieve the things they left behind. Three of them answer the call. Goading, ribbing and clashing with each other, the men flash back to their lives with Jessica and reveal surprises about themselves. ZING ZANG A twenty-five year marriage and a twenty year friendship are imperiled when Sam has cocktails with his friend Eli's wife at the Polynesian Lounge in Wadsworth, Ohio, and Eli meets Claire on a flight from San Francisco to Cleveland Mayan Mask Unmasking a lie proves dangerous to friendship and two marriages. LIMBO A comedy in which the fear of mortality threatens the 34-year marriage of an irreverent couple when they find themselves locked into the walled patio of a synagogue. Recriminations about a secret and about their Atheist daughters challenge them to a near breaking point, but they share something that not even a clash between Jewish and Hindu gods can match. JUNK MAIL A math professor takes revenge on the post office by scattering his junk mail on the floor, as an art professor at the same college enters to mail a letter. Sharing memories of the days when they were young rebels in the sixties, they enjoy a brief love affair atop the scattered mail, before a bitter misunderstanding leaves the relationship, teetering in the balance. Contributor Bio:  Snyder, Lynn Productions of Lynn Snyder's plays include Mayan Mask at Looking Glass Theatre in New York City; Don't Look at Theatre of NOTE in Los Angeles, Open Hydrant Theatre in the Bronx, Theatre Inspirato in Toronto, Another Country Productions in Boston and at Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe Festival; Junk Mail at Manhattan Theatre Source in New York City; Zing Zang at Perform Theatre, San Rafael, CA; Air Pockets at Three Wise Monkeys, San Francisco and in translation at Teatro del Navile in Bologna, Italy; A Sense of Humour at Menlo Players Guild, Menlo Park and First Stage Theater Co. in Los Angeles. Other plays in print include Air Pockets and A Sense of Humour, published by Three Wise Monkeys Press and Gypsy, published by Rockford Writers' Guild. Lynn has had playwriting fellowships and grants from the Jerome Foundation, Theater in the Works at the University of Massachusetts, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation. She has worked as a reporter, editorial and feature writer for newspapers in this country and England before turning to publicity and speech writing for political campaigns in Southern California. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and lives in Berkeley with her husband, Leo Ganz, a Stanford professor of biopsychology.