Lynne Bolen
Lynne Bolen is a Director/Producer/Actor/Playwright.
She is a member of New Voices Playwrights Theatre and serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors. Lynne’s plays have been produced in Orange County at the Chance Theater, Vanguard Theatre, Gallery Theatre, STAGEStheatre, Cabrillo Playhouse, and the OC Pavilion Performing Arts Center. Some of her plays produced by New Voices include Christmas Bells, Christmastime Machine, For Better or For Worse, Due Diligence, Past, Future, and Christmas Present, Gifts of Magic, and The Merry Book Club.
Some of the plays Lynne has directed include David, Nothing for Christmas, Sands of Discontent, Goodnight, Joe, Waiting, Lilies and Dandy Lions, Sunday, Rudy in Saigon, Twelve Theories of Christmas, Believing, And Nothing But the Truth, Expectations, Boarding House Reach, Nothing for Christmas, Lawanda, Have a Very PETA Christmas, Snow Geese, Lannie and Kris, Loreto, Kris’ Hopes, Press Box, Dancing on a Grave, Sunday, What Really Happened, Grandpa Was a Bachelor and A Tangled Affair.
As an actor, some of Lynne’s performances on stage include South Pacific, The King & I, Oliver!, Finian’s Rainbow, Once Upon A Mattress, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, A Dickens of a Christmas, Heidi, Tribunal, Inherit The Wind, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and Hour Glass.
Lynne received critical acclaim as the star of the American Film Institute’s award winning love, ltd., which screened continuously for over three years at film festivals worldwide. Other films include The Reluctant Son, Without Words, Parachute Kid, Through Passing, Songs Without Words, Scar and Sweating the Small Stuff.
A third-generation Southern Californian, Lynne has a BA from UCLA, an MBA from CSUDH, and a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration from CSULB. She is the former Controller of the Tony-award winning South Coast Repertory theatre, and is currently the Controller and Treasurer of St. Jude Memorial Foundation in support of St. Jude Medical Center.
Lynne has been married to New Voices member John Bolen for over 30 years, and they are the proud parents of James, Kate, Claire and Paul.
Contact Lynne, New Voices’ Treasurer, at Lynne.Bolen@gmail.com.
