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Lynette Linton (born 1990) is a Bafta-nominated British playwright, director, dramaturg and the artistic director at The Bush Theatre. She directed the award-winning production of Sweat. In 2019 she was named as one of s "Future Shapers".


Early life and education
Linton is of British Caribbean heritage and grew up in , . Her father is from and her mother is from . Linton became interested in theatre and writing as a child. She has said that she wanted to be . At the age of eight she moved to , where she and her brothers experienced racism. She studied English at the University of Sussex and soon afterwards joined the National Youth Theatre. Here she met Rikki Beadle-Blair, who encouraged her to write a play. The play she wrote – Step – was about a young man working out his sexuality, inspired by . It was programmed at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. Linton's writing explores who she is and where her family are from. She trained as a Director at StoneCrabs in 2013.


Career
In 2014 Linton founded the production company Black Apron Entertainment, which was named after the uniforms worn by her and her colleagues Daniel Bailey and Gino Green at their first jobs in John Lewis. Black Apron Entertainment have produced several plays and short films, including Passages: A Windrush Celebration at the Royal Court Theatre. Passages included seven monologue films that were written in response to the .

In 2016, she was appointed as assistant director at the Gate Theatre. Linton directed 's play Sweat at the in 2018. The success of the production, which starred Clare Perkins, , Osy Ikhile and Parick Gibson, resulted in it transferring to the in 2019. It was awarded the 2019 "Play of the Year" award. Her production of Richard II was the first ever all women of colour company performing a Shakespeare play on a UK stage.

In 2019 it was announced that Linton would become the artistic director of The Bush Theatre. Her appointment has been celebrated by the UK theatrical community, which is dominated by white men. When asked about the reason she applied for the job, she quoted , "The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it." She hopes to make the theatre more welcoming to traditionally minoritized groups, including people of colour and those from working-class backgrounds. Her first season as artistic director started with a revival of 's Chiaroscuro and several other works by British writers of colour. The remarked that in terms of "sheer emotional power", nothing came close to Linton's Chiaroscuro.

She was selected as one of the "Future Shapers" in 2019. She was named as one of London's most influential people in the s Progress List.


Theatrical works

Writing
Linton has written for Theatre Royal Stratford East and the , among other theatres.

  • 2013: Step
  • 2015: 'Chicken Palace
  • 2017: Hashtag Lightie


Directing

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