Lucy Cullingford

Lucy Cullingford

Movement Director

Lucy collaborates regularly with the RSC and recent productions in the role of Movement Director include: Coriolanus, Snow In Midsummer; Greg Doran’s groundbreaking production of The Tempest; Don Quixote and The Jew of Malta.

Other high profile credits include: Ian McKellen’s King Lear, (Chichester Festival Theatre and Duke of York’s Theatre) and Constellations (Royal Court, Duke of York’s Theatre and off Broadway).

Further movement credits include: Mountains (Royal Exchange); The Winter’s Tale (NT Education); The Shadow Factory (Nuffield Theatre); The 101 Dalmatians (Birmingham Rep) Hir (Bush Theatre); East is East (Northern Stage); Jenufa (Grange Park Opera); Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal Bath); Of Mice And Men (Birmingham Rep); The BFG (Octagon Theatre); The Night Before Christmas (West Yorkshire Playhouse); And Now: The World (Openworks Theatre); Flare Path (The Original Theatre Co); Talking Heads (Theatre Royal Bath); The Mother (Ustinov Studio); Abigail’s Party (Curve Theatre); Intimate Apparel, The Double (Ustinov Theatre, Bath); The Spanish Golden Age Season (Ustinov, Arcola and Belgrade Theatres).

As Choreographer productions include: The Last Mermaid, with Charlotte Church (Wales Millenium Centre); Alice In Wonderland (CBBC); The Secret Adversary (Watermill Theatre).

Lucy was the RSC/Warwick University Creative Fellow in Residence where she directed The Renaissance Body. The piece was staged to mark the re-opening of the Swan Theatre, Stratford and performed at the University of Warwick and as a live installation at the British Museum as part of the Shakespeare: Staging The World Exhibition for the World Shakespeare Festival in 2012.

Future productions include: Swallows and Amazons (Storyhouse Theatre); Henry V (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory).

Lucy has an MA in Movement Studies from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.