Lucy Richardson is a Relationship Manager at the Arts Council in the London Theatre team. Here she has a responsibility for Creative Health and New Writing and is the Borough Lead for Barking and Dagenham.
Alongside this she is a director, dramaturg and educator. Her work focuses on giving a platform to those under-represented in the theatre and in society. It spans professional theatre work and large-scale participatory projects.
Lucy’s directorial work includes The Woman Who Cooked her Husband by Debbie Isitt in the West End, The Quick by Stephanie Jacob at the Tristan Bates Theatre and Heart Speak by Zawe Aston for Clean Break. The Strongbox by Stephanie Jacob won The Origins Award for Outstanding New Work at Vault 2018. Bare Knuckle – a one man about bare knuckle fighting in the traveller community – was selected to be showcased at the United Solo Festival in New York in 2021. Mid Life by Sheila Chapman, a show about the menopause, opened at Bristol Old Vic and at High Tide before going on a National Tour in 2025. The Guest by Stephanie Jacob and produced by her company Cockahoop Theatre was performed at Clapham Omnibus in 2025.
Lucy was Associate Director of Project Phakama for many years making large scale, immersive, participatory performance in South Africa, Argentina, India and Lesotho and UK. Her book Phakama: Making Participatory Performance is published by Bloomsbury Methuen this year.
Lucy has directed over 30 productions in Drama Schools and Universities and was Artistic Director for Lewisham Youth Theatre for 10 years.