Lucy Corley

Theatre Director Stage Manager Dramaturg Web Content Specialist

I am a proactive, dedicated early-career theatre maker with experience in directing and dramaturgy.

I seek to create work that boldly foregrounds unheard or underrepresented voices, and combines technology with physicality to explore human connection. I am particularly interested in theatre from disabled, chronically ill, queer and neurodivergent perspectives.

In 2021 I graduated with distinction from an MA in Theatre Directing at Royal Holloway University, where I trained with Katie Mitchell in her directing methodology.

Credits

DIRECTOR, Splendour, Cygnet Theatre Exeter, 1 week, 2022

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AND STAGE MANAGER, Blood On Your Hands, Cockpit Theatre, 3 performances, 2022

STAGE MANAGER, Various productions, Salisbury Dance Studios, 2022, 2016 and 2014

DIRECTOR, Meet Me At Dawn (extracts), Caryl Churchill Theatre, 1 performance, 2021

DIRECTOR, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (extracts), Online student production, 1 performance, 2021

DRAMATURG AND STAGE MANAGER, Keats' Year of Wonders, Exeter Cygnet Theatre, 1 week, 2019

ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR AND STAGE MANAGER,
Cygnet Theatre Exeter:

Meek, 4 performances, 2020
An Intervention, 4 performances, 2019
Boston Marriage, 4 performances, 2019
The Importance of Being Earnest, 1 week, 2019
His Return, 1 week, 2018
Strawberries in January, 3 week tour, 2018
Fire At the Clarence, 4 performances, 2017

DRAMATURG, The Bideford Witches, Exeter Barnfield Theatre, 4 performances, 2016

STAGE MANAGER, The Duchess of Malfi, Exeter Barnfield Theatre, 4 performances, 2015

Training

MA Theatre Directing – Distinction
Royal Holloway, University of London, 2021

Directing Comedy Masterclass with Henry Lewis, Mischief Theatre
Salisbury, October 2022

Intimacy Masterclass with Ita O’Brien
London, July 2022

Finance for Non-Financial Managers
Online, June 2021

Set design, costume and sound design
Online seminars with designer Alex Eales and composer Melanie Wilson, November 2020

Equality and Diversity
Online, 2014, plus yearly refreshers

Health and Safety at work
Exeter, 2014, plus yearly refreshers

BA (Hons) English – First Class
University of Exeter, 2011-2014

A-levels: English Literature (A), German (A), History (A)
2010

Location

Devon

Experience

1-2 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Literature
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • New technologies / digital
  • Opera
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Theatre making
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

German (competent spoken and written)

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