CARLYN
FLINT
WRITER
ARTIST
EDUCATOR
BIO
Carlyn ("CAR-lin") holds a Bachelor's in Theater from Vassar College and is a recent graduate
from The University of Southern California, MFA in Dramatic Writing program. She writes comedic dramas about societal barriers to love: the structures that prevent us from taking care of one another. Her works often include magical expressions of the real world, women and children, and colloquial language mixed with the poetic.
Her graduate thesis work, “Wonderland Is Real” won the Bellman’s Prize in USC Libraries’ 2021 Wonderland Competition, and her play “Net of Worth” was a 2022 Finalist in the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition.
She currently lives in Tulsa, OK where she writes with Heller Theater Company. She also recently co-founded WRISE Collective, an online writer's group featuring up-and-coming stage and screenwriters.
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In addition to theater, she has worked as a writer for Spektral Ink Films' documentary Revelations in Tear Gas and illustrated a children's book called Our Lady Gaia with poet Lawrence F Hawk. She is the founder of an arts-infusion reading and writing program for kids called
ARTademics (www.artademics.com), and a dharma leader at Tam Bao English Language Sangha.
SCRIPTS
NET OF WORTH
FULL LENGTH PLAY
FINALIST: Alliance/Kendeda
National Graduate Playwriting Competition
WONDERLAND IS REAL
FULL LENGTH PLAY
In a high cost American city, those without housing are haunted by Wallstreet, a mysterious embodiment of the tyranny of money. As an eclectic group bands together to survive, their generosity and resilience are tested by the pull of what money can provide.
THE BELLMAN'S PRIZE: USC Libraries'
Wonderland Awards
Ray is a nine year old boy living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When his mother is incarcerated, she tells him that she’s gone to Wonderland. Already confusing fact and fiction, Ray uses Lewis Carroll’s original book as a roadmap to find her. Mr. Hatter arrives to assist in his journey, but the realities of our court system are worse than the Queen of Hearts.
ADVENTURES OF A DOORMAT
COMEDIC SERIES FOR THE STAGE
FOUR TIME WINNER: Heller Theater's
Second Sunday Serials
Jen and Catalina have been best friends since they were 11 years old. Jen is single and dating, but she doesn’t like casual sex and has a hard time saying no, which is a bad combination in today’s dating world. Catalina on the other hand, is wildly horny due to her failing marriage with Matt, alien conspiracy theorist and dinosaur-improv aficionado.
THE DONORS
10 MINUTE HORROR PLAY
2ND PLACE: Heller Theater's
Hellerween Short Play Festival
In an authoritarian dystopia, three women are ceremonially honored for having made an ultimate sacrifice. In a pageant of "goodliness", one woman can no longer bear to keep up appearances.
ITCH
10 MINUTE PLAY
In the middle of America, two elderly porch sitters are interrupted by a panicked neighbor. He claims to be escaping from a deadly fast-approaching cloud, and urges them to run. But as the symptoms seem too hilarious to be believed, neither runs...
SHOES ON 2
FEATURE SCREENPLAY
In this loose adaptation of "Taming of the Shrew" a naive aspiring actress struggles to harness the ferocity required to play Shakespeare's Kate. When she lands a job selling shoes at a high end department store in NYC, the salespeople give her a whole new education in her craft.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
RADIANT ONE | Full Length Play | An adaptation of Lorin Roche's Radiance Sutras, which is a translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra. An old soul is reincarnated, but her innate freedom and love of sensual experience upends her culture’s rigidity.
TWO IS ENOUGH | Full Length Play | A young anti-whaling activist accidentally befriends the man inheriting Iceland's only remaining whaling business. In this examination of earth's interconnection, she must decide how far she will go to save the majestic animals she loves.
LADDER TO HEAVEN | Feature Screenplay | 5-year-old Calvin is hopeful that his new sister will be his best friend. When his mother has a miscarriage, he builds a ladder to heaven in their backyard, hoping to bring her back to life.
EVERYTHING IS PERFECT | Full Lenth Play | An irreverent adaptation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Cassandra and Clytemnestra form an unlikely friendship and set off to create “world peace”, guided by a man named Chorus with nine lives.