About me
Lucy Betts is a freelance Director and workshop facilitator with a particular passion for Actor-Musicianship. She won the 2022 OFFIE for Best Director (Plays) for her production of Lone Flyer at Jermyn Street Theatre.
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Lucy is a Creative Associate at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury. In 2018 she was part of the Mid-Career Development Programme at Chichester Festival Theatre.
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Lucy is Resident Director of ChewBoy Productions.
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In 2020 Lucy collaborated with several skilled colleagues to set up Prologue Youth Theatre Company in Guildford, Surrey. They provide high-quality workshops to help young people develop their creative, social and personal skills.
She has also written for young performers – including musical adaptations of Just So Stories, The Secret Garden and The Railway Children.
Upcoming Projects
March 2025: Alice by Heart, Greenwich Theatre/Rose Bruford College
DIRECTING CREDITS INCLUDE
2024 Jane Eyre, Rose Bruford College
2024 Romeo and Juliet, Schools Tour/Rose Bruford College
2024 40 Elephants, Exeter Northcott Theatre and tour
2023 Vernon God Little, Leeds Chroma Q Theatre
2023 Just So Stories, Dapdune Wharf
2023 these words that'll linger like ghosts, Pleasance Islington
2023 Seussical, Rose Bruford College/Greenwich Theatre
2023 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, GSA
2022 Rapunzel, Watermill Theatre
2022 Caligari, New Diorama/Underbelly (Untapped winner 2022)
2022 Jekyll and Hyde, Rose Bruford College
2022 Tipping the Velvet, GSA
2022 these words that'll linger like ghosts, Riverside Studios
2021 Nell Gwynn, Rose Bruford College
2021 Lone Flyer, Hull Truck Theatre
2021 The Tempest, Rose Bruford College
2021 Groundhog Day, Rose Bruford College (workshop)
2020/2021 Lone Flyer, Watermill Theatre/Jermyn Street Theatre
2021 Tethered, Lion and Unicorn
2020 Into The Woods, Rose Bruford College (workshop)
2019 The Wizard of Oz, Chichester Festival Theatre
2019 Euan, Brighton Fringe, Rose Theatre Kingston
(IYAF award – Best Theatre at Brighton Fringe 2019)
2018 Sleeping Beauty, Chichester Festival Theatre
YOUTH THEATRE DIRECTING CREDITS INCLUDE
2023 Just So Stories, National Trust
2022 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, National Trust
2017 The Railway Children, Yvonne Arnaud & Regional Tour
2017 The Wizard of Oz, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2017 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2017 The Silver Sword, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2016 The Borrowers, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2016 The Secret Garden, Yvonne Arnaud & Edinburgh Fringe
2016 1984, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2016 Animal Farm, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2016 Private Peaceful, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2015 The Sea Child, Yvonne Arnaud & Edinburgh Fringe
2015 Oliver!, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2015 The Little Match Girl, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2014 The Wind in the Willows, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2014 James and the Giant Peach, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2014 Forever Young, Yvonne Arnaud & Edinburgh Fringe
2013 The Firework Maker’s Daughter, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2013 Peter Pan, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2013 Just So Stories, Yvonne Arnaud & Edinburgh Fringe
2012 The Lark, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2012 Charlotte’s Web, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2012 Fantastic Mr Fox, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2012 Sophie Shadow, Yvonne Arnaud & Edinburgh Fringe
2011 Lord of the Flies, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
2011 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Yvonne Arnaud
2011 Romeo and Juliet, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR CREDITS INCLUDE
2022 DJ Bazzer's Year 6 Disco, ChewBoy Productions
2021 The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Watermill Theatre
2020 Camelot, The Watermill Theatre
2019 Kiss Me, Kate, The Watermill Theatre
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2017 Alice in Wonderland, from the novel by Lewis Carroll
2017 The Railway Children, from the novel by E Nesbit
2016 The Secret Garden, from the novel by F Hodgson Burnett
2013 Just So Stories, from the stories by Rudyard Kipling
2012 Sophie Shadow, inspired by the hidden children of WW2
WRITING CREDITS INCLUDE