Lucy is a Southampton-born opera singer & comedy writer with a particular interest in the challenges & failings of autobiographical theatre. She uses comedy and music to explore trauma and mental health issues, and to comment on the problematic nature of biographical theatre, perfectionism, beauty standards and disregard for wellbeing in the creative industries and the wider world.
Lucy has an MA (Distinction) in Opera Performance from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she won the Dolan-Evans Memorial Prize, the Valetta Iacopi Aria Prize, & the Seligman Award for Excellence two years running, and a BA (First Class with Honours) in English and Drama from the University of Kent.
As an opera singer, Lucy’s work includes projects with English National Opera (Opera Squad), Welsh National Opera (CREW!, La Cenerentola, Paul Bunyan) Grimeborn Festival (The Tales of Hoffmann), Mid Wales Opera (Semele) and Longborough Festival Opera (The Cunning Little Vixen, Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni), as well as performing and directing for Pocket Opera and Bute Park Opera. It is I, Seagull is Lucy’s first solo production.
