Lucy Wray (she/they) is a director, theatre maker and performer based in London, working throughout the UK and internationally. Her work explores big political topics through intimate stories and encounters, using principles of Climate Dramaturgy and rooted in models of co-creation.

Her productions have won and been nominated for VAULT Festival and Off West End Awards. She has been shortlisted for the Young Vic Genesis Award, RTST Sir Peter Hall Directing Award and longlisted for the JMK Young Director Award.

They make inter-disciplinary participatory performance projects as Associate Director with METIS dir. Zoe Svendsen and have worked as Associate Director for the National Theatre and Resident Director at The Almeida.

Directing credits include:

MY UNCLE IS NOT PABLO ESCOBAR by Valetina Andrade, Elizabeth Alvarado, Lucy Wray & Tommy Ross-Williams (Brixton House, nominated for Best Production, Off West End Awards)

FERTILE by Toby Peach (Festival of the Mind)

The Book Of Light by Orr Benezra-Segal (Royal Court R&D)

[LAST] by Lucy Wray, Olivia Hirst, Ioana Curelea & CT3 (East15)

Iphigenia a new version by Lucy Wray (Almeida R&D)

Celebrate by Callum Cameron (VAULT Festival & Short Film, shortlisted for 2020 NETFLIX/ Edinburgh TV Festival Stage to Screen Award, and 2019 Finborough Playwriting Award.)

Left My Desk by Olivia Hirst (New Diorama & short film)

COW by Jessica Barker-Wren (Theatre Royal Plymouth; Wilton's Music Hall; The Bike Shed Exeter; Offbeat Festival; Underbelly Edinburgh)

RUN by Stephen Laughton (The Bunker)

They Built It. No One Came. by Callum Cameron (UK Tour; Pleasance Edinburgh)

EGGS by Florence Keith Roach (VAULT Festival)

Goodstock by Olivia Hirst (Greenwich Theatre/New Diorama/Pleasance Edinburgh).

As Dramaturg:

Give Me Your Skin by Tom Ross Williams & Oonagh Murphy (BAC)

Lucy was co-Artistic Director of Populace, a theatre company set up in response to anti-austerity protests in March 2011 which ran until 2016. With Populace, Lucy performed work at the Bush, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Lyric Hammersmith, Ovalhouse and Rich Mix.

Lucy Wray trained at Oxford School of Drama and has a degree in English Language & Literature. Lucy is an Associate Learning Practitioner for the Royal Shakespeare Company, a Barbican Creative Curriculum Artist, and was a Script Reader for the National Theatre, Bruntwood Prize and Mammoth Screen. She speaks fluent Spanish having lived in Mexico and Chile.