Lynette Linton (Director)

Lynette Linton is a writer, and BAFTA nominated director for theatre, TV and film.

Lynette Linton is directing Barcelona at the Duke of York’s Theatre from 21 October 2024 to 11 January 2025 starring Lily Collins and Álvaro Morte.

Lynette Linton has been Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre since 2019. She announced in September 2024 that she is leaving the Bush Theatre in 2025.

Linton is directing explosive thriller Barcelona by Bess Wohl, which is coming to London’s West End this autumn 2024, starring Screen stars Lily Collins (Emily in Paris, To The Bone, Mank) and Álvaro Morte (Money Heist, Wheel of Time, Immaculate). Barcelona will run for 12 weeks only at the Duke of York’s Theatre, from 21 October 2024 to 11 January 2025.

Lynette’s acclaimed Bush Theatre production of Shifters played the Duke of York’s Theatre in London from 12 August 2024, starring Tosin Cole and Heather Agyepong.

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.

For her production of Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre), she won the awards for Best Director at the 2022 Evening Standard Theatre Awards and 2022 Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards.

Lynette’s directorial screen debut, My Name is Leon, a feature-length television adaptation of Kit de Waal’s award-winning novel, aired on BBC2 in June 2022. In 2023, she was nominated for the Emerging Talent: Fiction BAFTA award for her work on the film.

Lynette directed the UK premiere of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat (Donmar Warehouse, Gielgud Theatre) for which she won Best Director at the inaugural Black British Theatre Awards. Sweat also won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play and was nominated for an Olivier award for Best New Play in 2019.

Her other directing credits include: Barcelona (Duke of York’s Theatre); 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 (Gate); Function (National Youth Theatre). She was Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse from 2017 to 2018.

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