Jessica Lazar

www.jessicalazar.co.uk | Representation: Jessica Stewart (Independent Talent)

Freelance director and part of award-winning theatre company Atticist. I work on new writing, revivals, and adaptations, and I am a 2021/22 Mercury Creative - a beneficiary of the professional development programme funded by the European Regional Development Fund and delivered by Mercury Theatre, Colchester. In 2019/20, I was EVOLVE Artist in Residence at Oxford Playhouse.

My productions have won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award, the inaugural SIT-Up Award (for ‘social impact theatre’), and been nominated for ten Off West End Awards including Best Director and Best Production.

I am also a filmmaker, photographer, puppeteer, and writer.

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Credits

On Next:
DIRECTOR, Alexandra Donnachie's Twenty-Eight, Theatre 503, 1 week, 2022
DIRECTOR, Tom Brennan's The Free Island, Vault Festival, 2 days, 2022
DIRECTOR/DRAMATURG, Rafaella Marcus's Sap [Paines Plough Roundabout @ Summerhall Edinburgh Fringe, 4 weeks, 2020 - postponed to 2022 details tbc]

AUDIO DIRECTOR, Tajinder Singh Hayer's Ghost Stories From An Old Country (59:37), Papatango, https://papatango.co.uk/2021-prize-audio-tour-ghost-stories-from-an-old-country/, 2021
AUDIO DIRECTOR, Margaret Perry's A Passion Play (32:48), 45North/Atticist/Ellie Keel Productions/North Wall Arts Centre - https://www.thenorthwall/whats-on/a-passion-play, 2020
AUDIO DIRECTOR/DRAMATURG, Rafaella Marcus's The You Play Vol. 2: The Haunted Woman (51:31), part of Written on the Waves by 45North/Ellie Keel Productions - https://www.forty-fivenorth.com/the-you-play-volume-two-the-haunted-woman, 2020
AUDIO DIRECTOR/DRAMATURG, Rafaella Marcus's The You Play Vol. 1: Small Acts (44:58), part of Written on the Waves by 45North/Ellie Keel Productions - https://www.forty-fivenorth.com/the-you-play, 2020
AUDIO DIRECTOR/DRAMATURG, Rafaella Marcus's The Gift (05:20), part of audio series Loss & Hope by 45North/Atticist/Ellie Keel Productions/North Wall Arts Centre - https://www.forty-fivenorth.com/loss-hope-the-gift, 2020

DIRECTOR, Ciaran Fitzgerald's BLOCKBUSTERS, Park Theatre, 1 nt, 2021
DIRECTOR, Rafaella Marcus's The Gift, Oxford Playhouse, 8 perfs, 2021
DIRECTOR/DRAMATURG, Rafaella Marcus's Sap, Vault Festival, 2 days, 2020
DIRECTOR, Yolanda Garcia Serrano's iCorre!, Cervantes Theatre, 2 days, 2019
DIRECTOR, Lisa D’Amour’s Anna Bella Eema, Arcola, 5 weeks, 2019
DIRECTOR/DRAMATURG, Sam Potter’s The Unicorn and Iman Qureshi’s This is a love story, North Wall Arts Centre (Alchymy Festival), 2 days, 2019
DIRECTOR, David Greig’s Outlying Islands, King’s Head, 2019
DIRECTOR, Christina Murdock’s Dangerous Giant Animals (Edinburgh Fringe / United Solo Fest New York / Park Theatre, 4 weeks, 2018
DIRECTOR, Nick Hall’s Spencer, Edinburgh Fringe, 4 weeks, 2018
DIRECTOR, Mart Crawley’s For Reasons That Remain Unclear, King’s Head, 4 weeks, 2018
DIRECTOR, Steven Berkoff’s East, King’s Head, 4 weeks, 2018
DIRECTOR, Nazish Khan’s Deadly Dialogues, Edinburgh Fringe / 3LD New York, 4 weeks, 2017
DIRECTOR/DRAMATURG, Katherine Rundell’s Life According to Saki, New York Theatre Workshop Fourth Street Theatre, 2017
DIRECTOR/DRAMATURG, Katherine Rundell’s Life According to Saki, Edinburgh Fringe, 2016


ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Sugar House, Finborough Theatre, 4 weeks, 2021
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Bullet Tongue, Big House, 5 weeks, 2018

Development and volunteering credits available on request.