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LYNN KREMER
Director and Co-Librettist
 
 

LYNN KREMER has written and directed for theatre, opera, and video. kremer Her work has been performed at the Miller Theatre Sonic Boom Festival in New York City; The Walker Art Center and Fringe Festival in Minneapolis; the Tsai Performance Center and Boston Center for the Arts in Boston and the Cambridge Multicultural Center; the Smithsonian Institute; and in venues in Ft. Worth, Chicago, and Ireland.

Her visual pieces are informed by the theatre and dance traditions of India and Indonesia, where she has traveled and lived extensively. Her training, particularly in Bali, is what prompted The Fort Worth Star (TX) to call her direction “complex and compelling.” Her production of Bhima’s Journey was described in The Worcester Phoenix (MA) as a “most startling, imaginative, and visually astonishing piece of theatre...the audience seemed dazed when it was over.” About her production of Chitra, critic Marcia B. Siegal wrote in The Boston Phoenix. “I wish it had run for weeks. I could absorb its many elements only in one syncretic glimpse, and I grasped the music mainly as a vibrant backdrop...there was so much to see--puppets, moving screens, a stylized mountain backdrop with another screen behind it, the actors and musicians in gorgeous intense colors, the instruments themselves. The whole panoply deserved to be spread out in a space big enough to match its expansive concept.”

In 2009, her production Mimpi was performed at the GEOKS’ Theatre and the Bali Arts Festival. The Jakarta Post wrote, “It was a sight to see: The GEOKS stage transformed into a dreamscape of moving visual and sound narratives…” While living in Micronesia, she produced and directed a video program on the chant/dance traditions of Palau through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts’ Dance program. Ms. Kremer has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts’ Opera Program, The New England Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Commission, the Worcester Arts Lottery, the LEF Foundation, the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center and The College of the Holy Cross where she is a Professor in the Theatre Department and a member of the faculty since 1983. The New England Theatre Conference gave her a Special Award for Outstanding Achievement on a National Level. Ms. Kremer earned her M.F.A. at Brandeis University and a B.A. and B.F.A. at the University of Minnesota. She lives in Princeton, MA with her husband and daughter.