Lucy Jane Atkinson

Lucy Jane Atkinson is an award-winning director and dramaturg who specializes in new writing. A graduate of LAMDA’s Post Graduate Director’s course, and a member of the National Theatre’s Directors course. In 2018 she was named as number 1 on The Stage’s Top Talents To Watch. She has been scouted to direct new plays on both sides of the Atlantic, and has won awards for her work on multiple continents. In 2025 she was Resident Director for the  New Work Department at the National Theatre.

Theatre credits as Director include: Barriers (National Theatre); A Hundred Words For Snow - Off West End Award nominee for Best New Play and Best Director (Trafalgar Studios); The Sleeping Sword (Watermill Theatre); Spy For Spy (Riverside Studios); Testament - Broadway World Award-winner for Best Director (Via Brooklyn, New York); Meat (Theatre503); Girls & Boys (Crow’s Theatre, Toronto); Radio; A Great Big Wooly Mammoth Thawing From The Ice; I & You (Burning Coal, North Carolina) and The Enchantment (HERE Arts Centre, New York). 

As Assistant Director: Middle (National Theatre).