Sweat
UK premiere of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Evening Standard Best Play; Olivier nomination for Best New Play.
Best Director, Black British Theatre Awards
Born in Leytonstone, East London, in 1990, Lynette fell in love with theatre as a child. She set out to be an actor, until a director she was working with saw what she hadn't yet: that she was a director.
In 2014 she co-founded the theatre and film production company Black Apron Entertainment. She went on to become Associate Director at the Gate Theatre, where she founded the Young Associate company, and Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse.
Her 2018 UK premiere of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat at the Donmar made her name, transferring to the West End and winning the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play. The following year she became Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre, leading it through six years that brought four consecutive Olivier Awards and two West End transfers.
She made her screen directing debut with My Name Is Leon for BBC Two, earning a BAFTA nomination, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.