Lucy Laverty

Theatre Director Actor Creative Producer Maker and creator Events Manager, Production Manager

I am an early-career creative working in both Manchester and London. I perform, create and direct theatre as well as producing and managing events.

I co-founded So La Flair, a self-made, female-led company of early-career artists based in Manchester. We produce our own theatre, cabaret and immersive club nights. In the last 18 months, I’ve created, directed and produced multiple productions and projects whilst managing teams of early-career artists to establish So La Flair alongside producing projects for Walk the Plank.

I am interested in working on theatre that tells important stories centred by truth, creating work that is helpful in evoking a feeling and harnesses a magic connectivity within it's audiences'.

As a theatre director, the feeling and political intent of a production has to be interwoven into the process of its creation and present in how I run a rehearsal room. I like making work that is political and provocative, with silliness, imagination and a playful practice and dancing within that dichotomy as a theatre director. I like to make events that are transportive and full of feeling.

I am equal parts glitter and grit and I make work that is full of joy, heart, gut, soul and Rock and Roll.

Preferred Pronouns are She/Her

Credits

Executive Producer/Cupid's Coven Cabaret/Off The Wall/February 10th 2023

Theatre Director and Performer/Bad Bitch Cabaret/Tribecca, The Brewers, Wilson's Den/Across 1 year/2022-2023

Assistant Director/ Golden Key Closing Ceremony/ The Golden Key Festival at Guildhall/ 2022

Creative Producer/ Green Space Dark Skies Closing Event/ Walk the Plank: Cobden Works/ 2022

Creative Producer/ Fun Palace/ Walk the Plank: Cobden Works/ 2022

Creative Producer and Lead Workshop Facilitator/ GLOW/ Little Hulton CommUNITY/ 2 months/ 2022

Theatre Director and creator/ How To Keep Up With The Kardashians/ Underbelly Cowgate at Edinburgh Festival Fringe/ 2 weeks/ 2022

Theatre Director and creator/ How To Keep Up With The Kardashians/ Tribecca (2020), The Edge (2022), McQueens Theatre (2022), 42 Degrees Festival (2022),John Thaw Theatre University of Manchester/ Toured for 3 nights at each venue across 1 year/ 2022

Theatre Director and Performer/ Pleasure Rebellion/ Old Abbey Taphouse/ July 29th 2022

Lead Facilitator/ The Keeping Up Workshops/ University of Manchester Sports Union/ 1 week/ 2021

Creative Producer/ The Brightness Sanctuary Green Island/ August 2021

Assistant Director/ Love and Information / Whatstick Theatre, Partisan (2021)

Training

1st Class Drama and Theatre Studies Degree/ University of Manchester/ 2020

Directorial training led by Gwenda Hughes/ University of Manchester/ 2020

'Ask Me Anything' Devising Project with Paper Birds: A 4 day project workshopping and devising a performance with Paper Birds as part of their research process for their new piece 'Ask Me Anything'/ National Theatre/ 2019

Location

Greater Manchester

Experience

1-2 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Crafts
  • Film - documentary
  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Literature
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - documentary
  • TV - drama
  • Visual arts

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Facilitating
  • Music - Can Read
  • Outdoor performance
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Producing
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with young people
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

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