POLITICS AND CORRUPTION Three Plays In these three exciting character-driven plays, personal lives are dramatically effected when events and circumstances challenge moral and ethical postures. Blackmail A political thriller in which a Washington intern disappears and the Ohio congressman with whom she was having an affair is suspected of being complicit in her murder. He never is charged with the crime but although he doesn't kill her, he is complicit in her murder. He justifies this on grounds that she was going to blackmail him. He confesses to only one person, his wife, who will keep his secret and will help him to win re-election. Campaign Strategy Political and romantic fireworks converge during a three-way race for a Congressional seat, as political professionals in opposing campaigns walk a tightrope between crises in their romantic relationships and their political campaigns. Covenants And Restrictions A young woman disappears in a quagmire of condo corruption, and three people turn suspicion on each other when her body is found on the beach. Each of these people had reasons for want Carla out of the way. Only Gloria knows that Carla's estranged husband has been in town and that Carla has killed him. For police and the audience, Carla's murder remains unsolved.
About the Author: 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.