Artist Statement
I write plays about complicated, complex women of color. These women are neither saints or villains; they’re eternally both. These women are intelligent, blistered, and, most importantly, real. As these women navigate through the American landscape with a series of different issues, they all also struggle with the complicated idea of what it means to be a woman today and the layered complexity that adds to their various dilemmas. I use my plays to invite the audience into my world using humor and creating a recognizable world. We sit together, we drink together, and we live in these spaces together. My work challenges what about these spaces we can accept and what absolutely much change so that “the room where it happens” can be increasingly more inclusive.
Bio
Rachel Lynett (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latine playwright, producer, and teaching artist. Their plays have been featured at San Diego Rep, Magic Theatre, Mirrorbox Theatre, Laboratory Theater of Florida, Barrington Stage Company, Theatre Lab, Theatre Prometheus, Florida Studio Theatre, Laughing Pig Theatre Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, Teatro Espejo, the Kennedy Center Page to Stage festival, Theatresquared, Equity Library Theatre, Chicago, Talk Back Theatre, American Stage Theatre Company, Indiana University at Bloomington, Edgewood College, and Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. 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, Missing Socks and a Line of Coke was also a 2024 Blue Ink Award finalist and 2024 O’Neill Playwright conference semi-finalist. Lynett received commissions from Barrington Stage Company, Florida Studio Theatre, and Yale Rep. Recently, Lynett was a staff writer for The Winchesters and is working on an upcoming feature.
MISSING SOCKS AND A LINE OF COKE. Photo credit: Emmanuel Abreu. Workshop production by People’s Theatre Project.
Recent Credits
February 2025, Choosing You, Barrington Stage Company
January 2025, GOOD BAD PEOPLE, Laboratory Theater of Florida
June 2024 Letters to Kamala and Dandelion Peace, Voices Productions
April 2024• Missing Socks and a Line of Coke, Peoples Theatre Project (workshop production)
March 2024• As You Like It, University of Notre Dame
May 2023• Mufaro in the City, Yale Rep Commission
February 2023• Abortion Road Trip, Fonseca Theatre Company
• Good Bad People, True Colors
January 2023• “Cast Your Fate to the Wind.” The Winchesters, Staff Writer