Lynette Linton

Writer and Director

Agent

Emily Hickman
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Lynette Linton is a BAFTA nominated writer and director for theatre, TV and film, and is the Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre. She was Associate Director of the Gate Theatre from 2016 to 2017 and the Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse until February 2018. She won Best Director at the Evening Standard Awards 2022. She was nominated for a BAFTA in 2023 in the Emerging Talent: Fiction category, for her work as director on MY NAME IS LEON. She is currently developing screen projects with Avalon Entertainment, Home Team Content, and Wychwood Media. She is also a co-founder of production company Black Apron Entertainment.

Theatre credits:

SHFITERS 2024 (Upcoming)
Director
The Bush Theatre
The surprising and playful world premiere written by Benedict Lombe

CLYDE’S 2023
Director
Donmar Warehouse
The sequel to the West End hit SWEAT, by Lynn Nottage.

The Stage ⭐⭐⭐⭐- “A beautifully paced conducting of this quintet of tremendous performances”

The Guardian ⭐⭐⭐⭐- “Lynette Linton’s production is all yum. An actors’ director, her special sauce may be avid attention. Linton’s production, like Montrellous’s grilled cheese, lifts into the sublime.”

The Telegraph ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – “Linton has assembled the perfect ingredients for a dynamic, humane, laugh-out-loud evening.”

The Evening Standard ⭐⭐⭐⭐- “Lynette Linton’s production is rich in detail and texture and features gorgeous performances from two of her acting muses”

WhatsOnStage ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – “This is a vivid, life-enhancing play, full of heart, hope and humour, that suggests that whatever life throws at people, they can and will, if they cling on tenaciously enough, travel through to the next, better stage of human existence. Linton’s production is a real beauty. You’ll come out beaming…and possibly craving a really excellent sandwich.”

 

AUGUST IN ENGLAND 2023
Co-Director with Daniel Bailey
The Bush Theatre
The  playwriting debut of legendary British actor and comedian, Lenny Henry.
★★★★★- The Guardian
★★★★ – The Times, Evening Standard, The Stage, iNews, TimeOut
“Co-directors Daniel Bailey and Lynette Linton give Henry’s script plenty of room to breathe with an unhurried, uncluttered staging, adding just a few stylised touches to energise the production.” – The Stage

Blues for an Alabama Sky 2022
Director
National Theatre
Winner – Best Director Evening Standard Awards  2022
★★★★★ – Broadway World, iNews
★★★★ – The Guardian, Financial Times, Evening Standard, The Telegraph, TimeOut, The Stage, WhatsOnStage
“There’s such fun, while it lasts, in Lynette Linton’s beautifully cast, restrainedly musical production, which holds you both transfixed by the social shenanigans within the house while yearning for more of the dangerous glamour outside the window.” – The Guardian

House of Ife 2022
Director
The Bush Theatre
★★★★ – The Evening Standard

CHIAROSCURO 2019
Director
The Bush Theatre
★★★★★ – The Evening Standard.

RICHARD II 2019
Director
The Globe
Co-directing with Adjoa Andoh
★★★★ – The Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Stage, WhatsOnStage, Time Out, Evening Standard
“Exciting, fresh-thinking theatre, performed from the gut and piercing straight to the heart” – The Times

SWEAT 2018
Director
Donmar Warehouse
Written by Lynn Nottage
★★★★★ – Observer, The Guardian, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Time Out
“Lynette Linton’s superbly calibrated production excels from start to finish” – The Guardian
“directed by Linton with control and sensitivity” – The Stage

FUNCTION 2018
Director
National Youth Theatre
Written by Sophie Ellerby

THIS IS 2018
Director
Arts Ed
Written by Roy Williams

ASSATA TAUGHT ME 2017
Director
Gate Theatre
Written by Kalungi Ssbandeke

ASSATA: SHE WHO STRUGGLES 2015
Director
Young Vic
Written by Kalungi Ssbandeke

CHICKEN PALACE 2015
Director
Theatre Royal Stratford East

NAKED 2015
Director
The Vault Festival
Written by Jessica Burgess

THIS WIDE NIGHT 2014
Director
Albany Theatre/ Stonecrabs
Written by Chloe Moss

HASHTAG LIGHTIE 2017
Writer
Arcola Theatre Directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair
Writer and producer
Currently under option to Mainstreet Pictures for TV

CHICKEN PALACE 2015
Writer
Theatre Royal Stratford East
Directed by Lynette Linton and Marcus Ellard
Writer and producer

STEP 2013
Writer
Theatre Royal Stratford East/various schools
Directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair

Film and TV Credits:
MY NAME IS LEON 2022
Director
Douglas Road Productions/Ringside Studios/BBC
90’ Single Film for BBC 2 based on Kit de Waal’s debut novel
Nominated – Emerging Talent: Fiction, BAFTAs 2023
Winner – Best TV Movie, C21 Drama Awards 2022
Winner – Best Single Drama, ITalkTelly Awards 2022
★★★★★ – The Guardian.
“My Name is Leon is an astounding, transfixing film… If awards don’t follow then the world isn’t right,” Lemn Sissay, OBE.

LOOK AT ME 2020
Director
Greenacre Films
As part of ITV’s Unsaid Stories collection.

Assistant/Associate Director credits:
THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE 2018
Noel Coward Theatre
Directed by Michael Grandage

THE YORK REALIST 2018
Donmar Warehouse
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Directed by Rob Hastie

BELLEVILLE 2017
Donmar Warehouse
Directed by Michael Longhurst

LADY FROM THE SEA 2017
Donmar Warehouse
Directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah

KNIVES IN HENS 2017
Donmar Warehouse
Directed by Yael Farber

TORN 2016
Royal Court
Directed by Richard Twyman

THE VIEW FROM THE MOON- LIVE LUNCH 2016
Royal Court/ Birmingham Rep
Directed by Hamish Prie

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP 2016
Donmar Warehouse
Directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah

THE CHRISTIANS 2015
The Gate, Traverse
Directed by Christopher Haydon

IMAGE OF AN UNKNOWN YOUNG WOMAN 2015
The Gate
Directed by Christopher Haydon

GUTTED 2013
Theatre Royal Stratford East
Directed by Rikki Beadle- Blair

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