Rachel Lynett

Rachel Lynett (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latine playwright, producer, and teaching artist. Their plays, Last Night and HE DID IT, made the 2020 Kilroy’s List. 2021 recipient of the Yale Drama Prize for their play, Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson), 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 semifinalist. Lynett was recently a staff writer for The Winchesters and is working on an upcoming feature.