Lucy Allan

I am a freelance director based in London. I also work as an assistant director, facilitator, reader and dramaturg. I like directing devised work and new writing that is daring and inventive with a strong political focus.

I was trainee director at Leeds Playhouse from 2018-19, and from 2013-18 was co-artistic director of award-winning company Unholy Mess.

My pronouns are she/her.

Credits

DIRECTOR, The Ballad of Maria Marten, Rose Bruford at The Pleasance, 1 week, 2022
DIRECTOR, As You Like It, Rose Bruford, 2022
DIRECTOR, Yerma, Rose Bruford, 2022
DIRECTOR, Pomona, ALRA, 2022
DIRECTOR, Antigone, ALRA, 2022
DIRECTOR, leave the lamp on, ALRA, 2022
DIRECTOR, ASSEMBLY, ALRA, 2022
DIRECTOR, Poisoned Polluted, Old Red Lion Theatre, 4 weeks, 2019
DIRECTOR, Above the Mealy-Mouthed Sea, Underbelly, 3 weeks plus 30-date international tour, 2017-19
DIRECTOR, Melody, Omnibus Theatre + national tour, 3 weeks plus 15-date national tour, 2015-17
DIRECTOR, Unsung, Rosemary Branch Theatre, C Venues, Wilton's Music Hall, 7 weeks, 2013-14
DIRECTOR, Can't Stand Up For Falling Down, Studio Salford, Lowry Studio, 2 weeks, 2012-13
DIRECTOR, The Interpreter, Home, 24:7 Theatre Festival, 1 week, 2012
DIRECTOR, Endgame, Joshua Brooks, 1 week, 2012

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Around the World in 80 Days, Leeds Playhouse, 4 weeks, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Hamlet, Leeds Playhouse, 4 weeks, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Kes, Leeds Playhouse, 2 weeks, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Not Such Quiet Girls, Opera North, 1 week, 2018
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Airplays, BBC Radio Leeds, 1 week, 2018
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Shawshank Redemption, Assembly Rooms, 3 weeks, 2013
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Cyrano de Bergerac, Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, 4 weeks, 2013

Training

The Role of the Director in the Devising Process, Told by an Idiot
MFA in Theatre Directing, Birkbeck University of London