Lucy Atkinson

Director
Assistant Director
Location: London, England, UK

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Credits

Year Job Title
Project Type		 Project Name
Director / Company		 Location
2023 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		Spy For Spy
Feather Productions 		Riverside Studios
2023 Director
Theatre 		Girls and Boys
Here For Now 		Crow's Theatre, Toronto
2022 Director
Theatre 		The Sleeping Sword
Watermill Theatre 		Watermill Theatre
2022 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		A Great Big Woolly Mammoth Thawing From The Ice
Burning Coal Theatre 		Raleigh, North Carolina
2022 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		Barrier(s)
National Theatre 		Dorfman Theatre
2022 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		Joshua (and me)
Rachel Hammond 		Hope Theatre, Pleasance 10Dome, UK Tour
2021 Director
Theatre 		I and You
Burning Coal Theatre 		Raleigh, North Carolina
2020 Director
Theatre 		The Snow Queen
Brighton Open Air Theatre 		Brighton Open Air Theatre
2020 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		MEAT
45North 		Theatre 503
2020 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		Something Awful
Flux Theatre 		The Cavern, Vault Festival
2019 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		Whack
Here For Now 		Stratford, Ontario
2019 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		Vespertilio
Fight and Hope 		The Cavern, VAULT Festival, Winner – Show of the Week; The Boy's School, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin Fringe Festival
2019 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		Anguis
Avalon and BBC Arts 		Gilded Balloon Ballroom
2019 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		Phoenix
Richard Marsh 		Pleasance 10Dome
2018 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		A Hundred Words For Snow
RJG Productions 		The Cage, VAULT Festival, Winner – Origins Award for Outstanding New Work; UK Tour/Trafalgar Studios 2 - 4 Offie nominations incl. Best Director and Best New Play
2018 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		The Collection
Via Brooklyn 		The Wallace Collection
2018 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		Watch List
Working Title 		Clapham Omnibus
2018 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		CAUSE
Adam Line Productions 		VAULT Festival
2017 Director and Dramaturg
Theatre 		The Enchantment
Ducdame Ensemble 		HERE Arts Centre, New York
2017 Director
Theatre 		Lamb
Right Mess 		New Diorama Theatre
2017 Director
Theatre 		Testament
Old Sole Theatre Company 		Vault Festival
2017 Director
Theatre 		Vertigo Angustior
The Miniaturists 		Arcola Theatre
2016 Director / Producer
Theatre 		Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Fight and Hope 		Upstairs at the Arts Theatre
2016 Director
Theatre 		Rocks
The Miniaturists 		Arcola
2016 Director
Theatre 		Cov
Old Red Lion Theatre 		Old Red Lion Theatre
2016 Director
Theatre 		Posh gender reversed rehearsed reading
Anonymous Is A Woman
2016 Director
Theatre 		Orlando in Orlando
Theatre Renegade 		St James Theatre
2016 Director
Theatre 		Haemophobia
Theatre Renegade 		St James Theatre
2016 Director
Theatre 		Aloe Aloe
The Miniaturists 		Arcola Theatre
2016 Director
Theatre 		1001
Theatre Renegade 		Southwark Playhouse
2015 Director
Theatre 		Love Is On Our Side
Theatre Renegade 		Southwark Playhouse
2015 Director
Theatre 		The Lost Art of Lost Art
Raspberry Tart 		White Belly, Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
2015 Director
Theatre 		Taken in Marriage
RoL'n Productions 		Waterloo East Theatre
2015 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Alice's Adventures Underground
Les Enfants Terribles 		The Vaults
2015 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Jekyll and Hyde
Sell A Door 		UK Tour
2014 Director
Theatre 		Boom
LAMDA 		LAMDA Linbury Studio
2014 Assistant Director
Theatre
LAMDA 		LAMDA Linbury Studio
2014 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Rabbit
LAMDA 		Pleasance Islington
2014 Assistant Director
Theatre 		The Kitchen Sink
LAMDA 		LAMDA Linbury Studio
2014 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Sweeney Todd
LAMDA 		POSK
2013 Director
Theatre 		Albert'sBoy
Fight and Hope 		The Last Refuge
2007 Director
Theatre 		Bang Bang, You're Dead
Frensham Heights 		Frensham Heights PAC
2010 Director
Theatre 		The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
SUDS Theatre Company 		The Debate Chamber
2011 Director
Theatre 		Antigone
SUDS Theatre Company 		The Debate Chamber
2010 Director
Theatre 		The Crucible
SUDS Theatre Company 		The Debate Chamber
2009 Director
Theatre 		Othello
SUDS Theatre Company 		Brighton Unitarian Church
2012 Director
Theatre 		Radio
Fight and Hope 		The Marlborough Theatre

Education

Year Qualification Where
2021 Director's Course National Theatre
2014 Director's PostGraduate Diploma LAMDA
2011 English Literature and Film Studies Sussex University

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About me

Lucy Jane Atkinson is an award-winning director of new writing. A graduate of LAMDA’s Post Graduate Director’s course, and a member of the National Theatre’s Directors course 2021. Her work focusses on new writing, and in 2018 she was named as number 1 on The Stage’s Top Talents To Watch, which stated “her direction is acutely sensitive to the shifting energy of the writing. Evident but never overbearing.”

Selected credits as Director: Barriers (National Theatre), A Hundred Words For Snow (Trafalgar Studios, Winner: Offie Best Actress. Nominated: Offie Best Director, Best New Play), The Sleeping Sword (Watermill Theatre), Testament (ViaBrooklyn, New York, Winner: BroadwayWorld Best Director 2022), Meat (Theatre503), Girls & Boys (Crow’s Theatre, Toronto), A Great Big Wooly Mammoth Thawing From The Ice, I & You (Burning Coal, North Carolina), The Snow Queen (Brighton Open Air Theatre), Anguis, Phoenix, Joshua (& Me) (Edinburgh Fringe), Something Awful, Vespertilio, A Hundred Words For Snow, Cause, Secondbests, Testament (VAULT Festival), Oil And Matter (Bunker theatre), The Enchantment (HERE Arts Centre, New York). As Staff Director: Middle (National Theatre).

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Skills

Secondary Job Title Assistant Director
Job Titles Director, 1st AD (Assistant Director), Creative Director, General Staff, Teacher
Years in industry 6+ years
Work Permits EU, USA