Lynette Linton

Lynette Linton is a writer, and BAFTA nominated director for theatre, TV and film, and is the outgoing Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre which she took over in 2019. Her programming at the Bush has centred 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.

She was previously Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse and is a co-founder of production company Black Apron Entertainment. For the Donmar, her credits include Clyde’s and Sweat (also West End; Best Director, Black British Theatre Awards). Her other productions include Alterations (National Theatre), Barcelona (Duke of York), Shifters (Bush Theatre/West End), As We Face The Sun (as co-director with Katie Greenall), August in England (as co-director with Daniel Bailey), House Of Ife and Chiaroscuro (Bush Theatre), Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre, Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director and Critics’ Circle Award for Best Director), Richard II (co-directed with Adjoa Andoh, marking the first ever company of women of colour in a Shakespeare play on a major UK stage) (Shakespeare’s Globe), Assata Taught Me (Gate Theatre), Function (National Youth Theatre).

For television, her credits include My Name is Leon (BBC2; BAFTA nomination for Emerging Talent: Fiction).