Lynette Linton was born in east London in 1990 and started writing and directing for the stage after joining the National Youth Theatre in her early 20s. Her three produced plays include Step and Hashtag Lightie and she won rave reviews for directing Lynn Nottage’s Sweat at the Donmar in 2018. The following year, aged just 28, she became the artistic director of the Bush theatre in west London. Linton’s production of House of Ife, the first show in the Bush’s 50th birthday season, opens on 29 April. She has also directed an adaptation of Kit de Waal’s novel My Name Is Leon, airing on BBC One later this year. In September, she will make her National Theatre directing debut with Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky.
