02/19/2023
🎧 Tune in to find out how Rachel Lynett took Shakespeare's stories and self-publishing into their own hands. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999313/12265016
Rachel Lynett is a q***r Afro-Latine playwright, producer, and teaching artist. Their plays have been featured at San Diego Repertory Theatre, The Magic Theatre, Mirrorbox Theatre, The Laboratory Theater of Florida, Barrington Stage Company, Theatre Lab, Florida Studio Theatre, Theatre Prometheus, Laughing Pig Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, TeatroEspejo, The Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival, TheatreSquared, Equity Library Theatre, American Stage, Indiana University at Bloomington, Edgewood College, and Orlando Shakes.
Their plays Last Night and HE DID IT made the 2020 Kilroy’s List. Rachel Lynett is also the 2021 recipient of the Yale Drama Prize for their play, Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson). Lynett was 2021 recipient of the National Latinx Playwriting award and the runner-up for the 2022 Miranda Family Voces Latinx Playwriting Competition for their play, Black Mexican. Their play, White People by the Lake was also a 2022 Blue Ink Award finalist. They have previously taught at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Alfred University. Lynett was recently a staff writer for The Winchesters and is working on an upcoming feature.
