Lynette Linton

Lynette is a writer, and BAFTA nominated director for theatre, TV and film, and took over as Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre in 2019. Her programming at the Bush has centered on ground-breaking debuts from UK and Irish writers. It has seen four consecutive Olivier Award wins for Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer, Igor Memic’s Old Bridge, Waleed Akhtar’s The P Word and Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini’s Sleepova, plus the West End transfers of both Tyrell Williams’ Red Pitch and Benedict Lombe’s Shifters in 2024.

In 2023, the Bush was named Theatre of the Year at The Stage Awards.

Theatre

For the National: Alterations, Blues for an Alabama Sky

Other productions include: Shifters (Duke of York’s, Bush); Clyde’s (Donmar); As We Face The Sun (as co-director with Katie Greenall, Bush); August in England (as co-director with Daniel Bailey, Bush); House of Ife (Bush); an adaptation of Jackie Kay’s Chiaroscuro (Bush); Richard II (as co-director with Adjoa Andoh, Globe); Assata Taught Me at the Gate; Function for the National Youth Theatre; This Is for Arts Educational Schools; Indenture for Dark Horse Festival; Naked at Vault Festival; a revival of This Wide Night at the Albany Theatre; and Sweat at the Donmar and in the West End. She was also co-director on Chicken Palace at Theatre Royal Stratford East.

As assistant/associate director: The York Realist, Belleville, The Lady from The Sea and Knives in Hens at the Donmar; Torn at the Royal Court; Image of An Unknown Young Woman, The Christians at the Gate; Gutted at Theatre Royal Stratford East; and The Lieutenant of Inishmore in the West End.

As a writer, productions include: Hashtag Lightie at the Arcola; and Chicken Palace and Step at Theatre Royal Stratford East.

She was Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse from 2017 to 2018.

TV

As director: My Name is Leon.

As writer: Look At Me.

Awards

My Name is Leon – Emerging Talent: Fiction BAFTA award nomination.

Blues for an Alabama Sky – Best Director, Evening Standard Theatre Award and Critics’ Circle Theatre Award, 2022.

Lynette Linton was voted one of Marie Claire magazine’s ‘Future Shapers’ in 2019, one of the Evening Standard’s Most Influential Londoners and is a member of The Stage 100 list.

Sweat – Best Director, Black British Theatre awards; Best Play, Evening Standard Theatre Award; nomination for Best New Play, Olivier Awards, 2019.