Our Amplify Producer, Craig, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown. These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.

Today’s guest is theatre director, Lucy Bailey.

Lucy Bailey is a theatre director who co-founded and was the co-artistic director of The Print Room. Recently, she has directed a staggering production of Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution at London County Hall, immersing the audience into the text, as well as a UK Tour of Gaslight starring Martin Shaw.

Other work includes: Ghosts (Northampton Royal and Derngate), Love from a Stranger (Northampton Royal and Derngate, and UK Tour), Cave (Printworks, Rotherhithe), The Graduate (Leeds Playhouse, Leicester Curve and UK Tour), Comus (Shakespeare’s Globe, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) and Kenny Morgan (world premiere and revival, Arcola Theatre).

Opera and Musical Theatre: Lucy co-founded and was the Artistic Director of The Gogmagogs – a music theatre ensemble of string players. She has conceived and directed many shows including: The Gogmagogs Gumbo Jumbo (Greenwich Theatre and International Tour), Troy Town (BAC and Riverside Studio), The Fool (Norwich Festival and Queen Elizabeth Hall), Introducing the Gogmagogs (ICA Theatre and Royal Court), Let’s Begin Again (World premiere – Norwich Festival), Jenufa (ENO/London Coliseum).

If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider donating to our Curtain Up Appeal, to ensure we can keep creating new work for audiences to enjoy: https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/support/curtain-up-appeal/​​