Playwright Discovery Award Teacher's Guide - The John F. Kennedy ...

GET TO KNOW A PLAYWRIGHT: Lynn Manning is a playwright, actor, and poet, living in
Los Angeles, California. Manning has performed his award-winning one-man show, Weights, around
the world. He adapted his short play Shoot for film, which he also starred in. In 2001, Shoot was
shown at the Sundance Film Festival and is currently distributed by HBO. He was the technical
advisor on blindness for the television series Blind Justice. Manning is president of the Firehouse
Theatre Company, which includes actors both with and without disabilities. He is a world-class blind
Judo competitor, and he represented the United States in the 1988 Paralympics.
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