Lucy Jane Atkinson

I'm an award-winning director currently based in London. Since graduating from LAMDA in 2014 I've focused primarily on new writing, working across a diverse range of projects, from large scale immersive experiences to intimate monologue plays.
I'm interested in plays about people in the margins, untold or unexplored stories of folk trying to survive and thrive in this complex world of ours.
I tend to work very closely with writers, often in a dramaturgical as well as directorial capacity, in order to ensure that i can properly translate the writer's vision from page to stage. I believe that new writing is not about the director, and if i do my job well then my work should be all but invisible in the texture of the piece. This work led to my being named Number One on The Stage’s list of talents to watch from VAULT 2018, who stated “[my] direction is acutely sensitive to the shifting energy of the writing. Evident but never overbearing.”
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Credits

DIRECTOR, Girls and Boys, Here For Now, Stratford, Ontario/Crow's Theatre Toronto, 6 weeks, 2022/2023
DIRECTOR, The Sleeping Sword, Watermill Theatre, 3 weeks, 2022
DIRECTOR, A Great Big Woolly Mammoth Thawing From The Ice, Burning Coal Theatre, Raleigh, North Carolina, 4 weeks, 2022
DIRECTOR, Barriers, Dorfman Theatre, 3 days, 2022
DIRECTOR, Joshua (and me), Hope Theatre/Pleasance/Touring/VAULT, 1 year, 2022/2023
DIRECTOR, I and You, Burning Coal Theatre, Raleigh, North Carolina, 4 weeks, 2021
DIRECTOR, The Snow Queen, Brighton Open Air Theatre, 3 weeks, 2020
DIRECTOR, MEAT, Theatre503, 4 weeks, 2020
DIRECTOR, Something Awful, The Cavern, VAULT Festival, 7 nights, 2020
DIRECTOR, Hansel and Gretel, Chiswick Playhouse, 4 weeks, 2019
DIRECTOR, Whack, Knox Amphitheatre, Stratford, Ontario, 6 nights, 2019
DIRECTOR, Anguis, Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 3 weeks, 2019
DIRECTOR, Phoenix, Pleasance 10 Dome, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 3 weeks, 2019
DIRECTOR, A Hundred Words For Snow, UK Tour/Trafalgar Studios 2, 4 week tour, 4 week run, 2019 (4 Offie nominations including Best Director and Best New Play)
DIRECTOR, Vespertilio, The Cavern, VAULT Festival, 1 week, 2019 (Winner – Show of the Week)
DIRECTOR, The Collection, The Wallace Collection, 1 week, (2018)
DIRECTOR, The One, Rehearsed Reading, York Lane Art Collective, 1 night, 2018
DIRECTOR, Watch List, Clapham Omnibus, 1 night, 2018
DIRECTOR, A Hundred Words For Snow, The Cage, VAULT Festival, 1 week, 2018 (Winner – Origins Award for Outstanding New Work)
DIRECTOR, CAUSE, The Cavern, VAULT Festival, 1 week, 2018
DIRECTOR, Secondbests, VAULT Festival, 2 nights, 2018
DIRECTOR, Oil and Matter, Staged Reading as part of Damsel Develops, The Bunker Theatre, 2 nights, 2017
DIRECTOR, The Enchantment, HERE Arts Centre, New York, 3 weeks, 2017
DIRECTOR, Testament, The Pit, Vault Festival, 1 week, 2017 (Winner – Show of the Week)
DIRECTOR, Cov, Old Red Lion, 3 nights, 2016
DIRECTOR, Posh, Gender Reversed Rehearsed Reading, The Judge’s Courtroom, 1 night, 2016
DIRECTOR, The Lost Art Of Lost Art, Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe, 3 weeks, 2015
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Alice's Adventures Underground, The Vaults, 7 months, 2015
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Jekyll and Hyde, UK Tour, 2 months, 2015
DIRECTOR, Boom, LAMDA Linbury Studio, 3 nights, 2014 (UK Premiere)
DIRECTOR, Albert's Boy, The Last Refuge/Marlborough Theatre, Brighton Fringe, 2 weeks, 2013
DIRECTOR, Radio, Marlborough Theatre, Brighton Fringe/The Albany, Deptford, 2 weeks, 2012
DIRECTOR, Antigone, Sussex University Debating Chamber, 1 week, 2011
DIRECTOR, The Goat, Sussex University Debating Chamber, 1 week, 2010
DIRECTOR, Othello, Brighton Fringe, 1 week, 2009

Training

National Theatre Director's Course - 2021
LAMDA Post-Graduate Diploma in Directing - 2013/14
StoneCrabs Young Director's Traineeship - 2011/12