Lucy Bailey

Lucy Bailey is a British theatre director, notable as the founder of the Gogmagogs chamber-music group (1995–2006) and the Print Room theatre in West London. She is married to the theatre designer William Dudley.

Biography

Bailey was born in Butleigh, Somerset in South-West England. She has stated that her favourite films include anything by Pasolini. As a teenager Bailey was an excellent flautist but was told by her flute teacher to give it up in order to pursue her goals in theatre. Bailey stated that it was the best advice anyone had ever given her. Lucy Bailey studied English at St Peter's College Oxford.

Career

Bailey became interested in the theatre when she worked with opera singers as a telephonist at Glyndebourne. She was only 17 years old. Bailey was recorded to have had her first breakthrough when she wrote to Samuel Beckett when she was 20 years old. She had asked him if he could give her permission to stage his short story, Lessness. She was able to show him her design for it, and although he said she had got it completely wrong, he gave her permission to stage it anyway. Bailey co-founded the Gogmagogs musical theatre company in 1995. After that she was able to work as an assistant director at the Royal National Theatre, Glyndebourne Opera and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has directed Shakespeare, notably productions at the Globe including Titus Andronicus and Macbeth and at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon including The Taming of the Shrew, A Winter's Tale and Julius Caesar.

Selected work

• 2006 - Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare's Globe)
• 2007 - Don't Look Now (stage adaptation)
• 2009 - Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company)
• 2011 - The Taming of the Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company)
• 2012 - The Winter's Tale (Royal Shakespeare Company)
• 2013 - Fortune's Fool (The Old Vic)
• 2014 - Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare's Globe)