Lucy Wray

Director Dramaturg Co-creator

Lucy Wray (she/they) is a director and collaborative theatre-maker.

Lucy has won a VAULT Highly Commended Award, been longlisted for the JMK Young Director Award, shortlisted for the RTST Sir Peter Hall Directing Award and their shows have received nominations for Best Production & Best Actor at the Off West End Awards.

Theatre work as a director includes Celebrate and EGGS at the VAULT Festival; Left My Desk at New Diorama and
HOME Manchester; COW at Theatre Royal Plymouth, Bike Shed Exeter and Wilton's Music Hall; RUN (nomination for Best Production at Off West End Awards) at The
Bunker; They Built It. No One Came. at Pleasance Edinburgh and on UK tour; Goodstock at New Diorama, Greenwich Theatre, CAST Doncaster and Pleasance Edinburgh. 

She was Resident Director on A Taste of Honey (National Theatre UK Tour/ West End) and a Resident Director at the Almeida where assistant work includes The Tragedy of King Richard the Second. She was Associate Director for METIS on We Know Not What We May Be at the Barbican, and World Factory at the Young Vic and on UK tour. 

Lucy Wray directed the short films duck.sock.shoe and Left My Desk. She is a reader for the National Theatre, Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and Mammoth Screen.

Credits

CO-DIRECTOR, My Uncle is not Pablo Escobar, Brixton House 2022

RESIDENT DIRECTOR, A Taste of Honey, National Theatre UK Tour & Trafalgar Studios, 22 weeks, 2019-20

DIRECTOR, Celebrate, VAULT Festival, 1 week, 2019

RESIDENT DIRECTOR, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, Almeida, 6 weeks, 2018-9

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, We Know Not What We May Be, Barbican, 2 weeks, 2018

DIRECTOR, Left My Desk, New Diorama, 3 weeks, 2018

DIRECTOR, Cow, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Bike Shed Exeter, Wilton's Music Hall, 2017-8

DIRECTOR, Run, The Bunker, 3 weeks, 2017

DIRECTOR, They Built It. No One Came., UK Tour & Pleasance Edinburgh, 2016-17

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, World Factory, UK Tour & Young Vic, 2015-7

DRAMATURG, Give Me Your Skin, UK Tour & BAC, 2016-7

DIRECTOR, Eggs, VAULT Festival, 2 weeks, 2016

DIRECTOR, Goodstock, UK TOUR & Pleasance Edinburgh, 2015-6



Training

Trained as an actor at Oxford School of Drama

Location

London

Experience

10+ years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Comedy
  • Film - documentary
  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Outdoor performance
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Puppetry
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Working with Deaf artists
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Spanish

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