{"id":57259,"date":"2019-01-09T21:32:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57259"},"modified":"2019-01-12T04:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T04:25:05","slug":"introducing-lynette-linton-as-our-new-artistic-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57259","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Lynette Linton as our new Artistic Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introducing Lynette Linton as our new Artistic Director<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Bush Green: Conversations, dispatches and ideas from the Bush Theatre<\/a>
\nBush Theater<\/a>
\nShepherd’s Bush, London, United Kingdom<\/em>
\n2018-11-14<\/p>\n

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We are thrilled to announce that Lynette Linton<\/a> will become our new Artistic Director in January 2019.<\/p>\n

Lynette<\/a> has made her name as a groundbreaking director and writer. She was previously Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse<\/a> and Associate Director at the Gate Theatre<\/a> from 2016 to 2017 where she set up the Young Associate company. She is currently directing the UK<\/a> premiere of Lynn Nottage\u2019s<\/a> Pulitzer prize winning play Sweat<\/em><\/a> (Donmar Warehouse) and will then co-direct Richard II<\/em> (Shakespeare\u2019s Globe<\/a>) in early 2019. The production will mark the first ever company of women of colour in a Shakespeare<\/a> play on a major UK stage. She is co-founder of theatre and film production company Black Apron Entertainment<\/a> who are producing Passages: A Windrush Celebration<\/em><\/a> with the Royal Court<\/a>, a project she also curated. As a writer her credits include Hashtag Lightie<\/em><\/a> (Arcola Theatre<\/a>), Chicken Palace<\/em> and Step<\/em> (Theatre Royal Stratford East<\/a>)…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are thrilled to announce that Lynette Linton will become our new Artistic Director in January 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,10],"tags":[29243,29244,26154],"class_list":["post-57259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-bush-green","tag-bush-theater","tag-lynette-linton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57283,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57259\/revisions\/57283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}