Lucy is a director working in the UK and Europe in settings ranging from large scale Opera houses and regional theatres to site specific locations and drama schools. Lucy trained in Drama at Middlesex University, graduating with a degree specialising in Directing. Lucy will begin work as the first Resident Director at National Opera Studios in Autumn 2024. 
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In 2025 Lucy directed Baroque Scenes for The National Opera Studios with the 24/25 Young Artist cohort and Christian Curnyn and Spring Scenes for Guildhall School of Music and Drama alongside Jonathan Cole-Swinard. This Autumn, Lucy will direct a set of scenes for The Royal Academy of Music and a set for The National Opera Studio in residency at Opera North. 

In summer 2025, Lucy returned to Garsington Opera Festival to work alongside Christopher Luscombe on L'elisir d'amore. During her time as Assistant Director at Garsington, Lucy directed the Opera First performance for secondary school students, and the cover rehearsals. 
 
In 2024 Lucy made her debut at San Francisco Opera - as associate Director on the highly acclaimed ​The Handmaid's Tale. 

Previous credits include:  Garsington Gala (Summer 2024), The Flying Dutchman (OperaUpClose, Summer 2023), The Promise (Handpicked Productions, Summer tour 2023),  Voices of the Sands (Deal & Tete a Tete Festivals, Summer 2022), Her Day  (Coventry City of Culture March 2022),   Trouser Power (Royal Opera House, Participation), Sophie (Tete a Tete),  No Sound Ever Dies, (Surrey Arts at Brooklands Museum), Eugene Onegin (Arcola Theatre), Belongings (Glyndebourne), The Finding (Mahogany Opera), Recital 1 (British Museum and Gemäldagalerie, Berlin), Found and Lost (Corinthia Hotel), Blank Canvas (Opera Up Close),  Tycho's Dream and Into the Harbour (Glyndebourne Education), The Last Pearly (Rich Mix), The Wind in the Willows and Grimm Tales (ALRA), An Ode to My Sisters (Regional Tour), The Onomatopoeia Society (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh).

Lucy has worked regularly as an Associate Director, in 2023 Lucy was Associate Director to John Fulljames on his production of Nixon in China by John Adams at Teatro Real, Madrid and in 2022 on The Handmaid's Tale by Poul Ruders, at The Royal Danish Opera. In 2018 Lucy was Associate Director on the highly acclaimed Street Scene, at Teatro Real, Madrid; she went on to revive the production in Köln in 2019 and Monte Carlo in 2020.

In both 2022 and 2024 Lucy revived Jonathan Kent's production of Tosca for The Royal Opera House, London.

Lucy has worked extensively as an Assistant Director and Staff Director, regularly for The Royal Opera House where she has worked on Rusalka, Agrippina, Don Carlos, Orphee et Euridice, The Queen of Spades, Tosca, The Lost Thing and How the Whale Became.  At Glyndebourne Festival, Lucy has worked as assistant director on Fidelio, La Finta GIardiniera, The Marriage of Figaro, Rusalka and Billy Budd and on Nothing and The Knight Crew for Glyndebourne Education.  For Opera North Lucy has assisted on Giulio Cesare, From the House of The Dead and The Queen of Spades.  For Garsington Opera Festival, Lucy assisted Louisa Muller on Platée in Summer 2024.

In Europe Lucy has worked as an assistant director at Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Real Madrid and Den Jyske Oper, Denmark.  As an Assistant Director in theatre Lucy has worked for The Young Vic, The South Bank Centre, Rifco Arts, and Mahogany Opera Group. 

As a practitioner, Lucy has often worked with marginalised or hard to reach groups; she has led projects for pupil referral units and with refugee groups; she has worked with vulnerable young people and those at risk of exclusion. Inclusion and empowerment are at the heart of Lucy’s work.

Lucy is deeply committed to making change in the Opera and theatre sector and is working with Freelancers Make Theatre Work and I:Opera to this end. 

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