Original Creative Team

The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood
by Mary Lynn Dobson

Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.

Mary Lynn Dobson, Playwright

Mary Lynn Dobson is a Jersey girl who has worked in the theatre as a director, actor and playwright. Her play The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood has not only been staged in every state in the United States but also had productions mounted all throughout the world, making her one of Dramatic Publishing's most produced playwrights. Another of her works, Skin Deep, was a winner of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival and is published in the Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 35th Series. Her backstage comedy, Two on the Aisle, Three in a Van, published by Samuel French, was performed in the New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), garnering the Summer Theatre Citation for Outstanding New Play as well as being awarded Best Ensemble Cast. The play was also the winner of Northern Kentucky University's Y.E.S. Festival. The university later staged Dobson's other comedy, Dracula, the Untold Story, during the summer theatre, where it received its first professional production in a sold-out run.