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Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel Lynett is a queer Afro-Latinx playwright who writes dark comedies about complex, complicated women of color. Her plays include YOU WERE MINE (2019), HE DID IT (2018), CIRCLE UP (2017), WELL-INTENTIONED WHITE PEOPLE (2018), ABORTION ROAD TRIP (2017), OF MICE, GOOD BAD PEOPLE, BREATHE ME IN, REFUGE, YUPPIE CLUSTERF*CK, GIVE ME SHELTER, TAMBIEN, KILL\/SHOT, BLACK KITCHEN SINK, and THE BLACK FRIEND. Her work has been developed and produced most notably at the Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival presented by Theatre Prometheus, the Equity Library theatre, Chicago, the University of Central Florida’s Pegasus PlayLab, as a reading as part of Unicorn Theatre Plays In Progress, the Michigan premiere with Matrix Theatre, the world premiere with Barrington Stage Theatre Company, the Downstage Left Residency with StageLeft, part of Orlando Shakespeare New Play Festival , and receiving honorable mention for the 2017 Kilroys for her play, a workshop production produced by Theatre Prometheus as part of Capital Fringe where it won Best Comedy, and presented by Theatre Prometheus, as a part of the 2017 Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival. She received her BA in Film, Television and Theatre from the University of Notre Dame and her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Arkansas. Rachel Lynett is also the 2018 Recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, one of the 2020 recipients for the Artist 360 grant, and most recently received the 2021 Yale Drama Series Prize for her work on APOLOGIES TO LORRAINE HANSBERRY (YOU TOO AUGUST WILSON).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Career Highlight<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel Lynett received the 2021 Yale Drama Series Prize for her play APOLOGIES TO LORRAINE HANSBERRY (YOU TOO AUGUST WILSON). Her play was hand selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Paula Vogel<\/a>. In addition to being published by Yale University Press, the award comes with a prize of $10,000. While the winning play is typically read on stage, this year\u2019s reading will take place virtually on a date to be announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n