Lyndsey Bourne
C321 Briger Hall
Guest Artist, HMEI.
Biodiversity and Ecology / Carbon Mitigation and Environmental Monitoring / Climate Science and Modeling / Energy and Environmental Engineering / Oceans and Atmosphere / Public Health and Infectious Disease / Sustainability and Green Chemistry
Lyndsey Bourne, a playwright, who is visiting the High Meadows Environmental Institute this academic year as part of a collaboration that HMEI is undertaking with the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Civilians Theatre in NY to develop works in the performing arts that address urgent environmental issues.
Lyndsey’s play – Hurry Up and Burn — is about a crew of wildland firefighters on and off the fire line, living with the physical, psychological, and environmental aftermath of fighting wildfires. The play will track how prolonged exposure to smoke and extreme heat, to mental and physical exhaustion and to fire itself, quietly reshapes bodies, labor practices, environmental landscapes, and daily life, exploring the effects of wildfire not as a series or season of catastrophes but as an intimate, pervasive invasion.