Lucy Bailey studied English at Oxford University where she directed the world premiere of Lessness by Samuel Beckett in consultation with the author.
Productions include: Death on the Nile (Fiery Angel, UK & Ireland tour); Clive (Arcola Theatre) Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None (Fiery Angel, UK & China Tour); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Oleanna and Switzerland (Theatre Royal Bath & West End); Gaslight (Bill Kenwright, UK Tour), Witness for the Prosecution (site specific production, London’s County Hall), Ghosts (Royal & Derngate Northampton); Comus, A Masque In Honour Of Chastity (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Globe), Kenny Morgan (Arcola, London). Other credits include many productions for Shakespeare’s Globe, RSC, National Theatre; The Graduate, Great Expectations, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Dial M for Murder (West Yorkshire Playhouse/West End/UK tour); Love From A Stranger, Gaslight (Royal & Derngate/ UK tour); The Importance of Being Earnest (West End/UK tour); Fortune’s Fool (London’s Old Vic); King Lear (Theatre Royal Bath); The Beggar’s Opera (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Private Lives, Glass Eels, Comfort Me with Apples (Hampstead); Don’t Look Now (Crucible, Sheffield/Lyric Hammersmith); Cave (site specific opera for London Sinfonietta and ROH, at the Print Works London); Tonight at 8.30, Stairs to the Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Opera credits include: Glass Human (Glyndebourne), Gudrun Fier Sang (Copenhagen dry dock), Jenufa (ENO); Cheryoumushki 1958 (Lyric Hammersmith); Noyes Fludde, Triptych, Mary of Egypt (Aldeburgh Festival); Pasolini’s Teorema (Maggio Musicale Florence/Munich Biennale/Queen Elizabeth Hall); Mitridate (Wexford Opera Festival).