Theater

From 1977 to 1981 Lynn served as Artistic Director of The Cambridge Theatre Company, where he produced more than forty plays, directing twenty of them himself including a Macbeth with Brian Cox that toured both the UK and India, playing a special performance for the Prime Minister, Mrs Gandhi.

Other notable London productions include Georges Feydeau's A Little Hotel On The Side at the National Theatre, translated by John Mortimer, The Glass Menagerie (working with Tennesee Williams), Shaw's Arms And The Man, Eric Idle's Pass The Butler, Joe Orton's Loot with Leonard Rossiter, and Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie at the Royal Shakespeare Company, in Stratford and London.

In 1987 he directed his own company at the National Theatre of Great Britain, eventually moving his centenary production of George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse to the West End. Once there, it won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy. His 1979 musical Songbook won the Society Of West End Theatres Award and the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical.

He's recently finished writing his first stage play, Collaborators, which is due to be presented in the West End of London in 2006.