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 2025 she was Resident Director for the New Work Department at the National Theatre. In 2018 she was named as number 1 on The Stage’s Top Talents To Watch, which stated “her direction is simple, but acutely sensitive to the shifting energy of the writing. Evident but never overbearing.”

Recent credits include BARRIERS, by Eloise Pennycott (Dorfman Theatre), THE SLEEPING SWORD, by Tatty Hennessy (Watermill Theatre), GIRLS AND BOYS, By Dennis Kelly (Falstaff Centre, Stratford, Ontario; Crow’s Theatre, Toronto, Winner – Ontario Stage Awards: Best Actress), A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW by Tatty Hennessy, (VAULT Festival, UK tour, Trafalgar Studios (winner: Outstanding New Work, VAULT 2018; Winner: Off West-End Award for Best Actress; Nominated: Off West-End Awards for Best Director, Most Promising Playwright, & Best New Play), VESPERTILIO by Barry McStay, (VAULT Festival, Dublin Fringe; winner: Show of the Week VAULT 2019), and MEAT, by Gillian Greer, (Theatre 503).

Her first filmed piece, TESTAMENT, garnered 13 nominations and 5 wins at the 2022 BroadwayWorld awards, including Best Director, and Best Streaming Play.

She had directed work in Britain, the United States, and Canada, and is currently developing a further host of new plays with an eclectic mix of some of the UK’s most exciting up-and-coming playwrights.

She is represented by Alexandra Cory at Berlin Associates.