ABOUT

Lydia is a theatre director and dramaturg. Her work excavates and amplifies the human experience, questioning the factors and social constructs that shape our relationships, identity and behaviour. She engages with how we can use theatre to speak to the contemporary audience, through developing new writing and re-imagining classic texts.​

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Lydia is co-founder of Gentlewomen Production House, a theatre and film company for emerging artists, focusing on externalising the female experience. ​

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She is currently associate director on the Royal Shakespeare Company's Cyrano de Bergerac, playing at the Noel Coward Theatre. She has been with the production since its beginnings at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-Upon Avon. 

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Lydia was literary assistant at the Finborough for the last three years, responsible for organising the theatre's attendance at all new work invitations across the UK. She is script reader for the Park, and runs her own script-reading service. 

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Her love for working with actors has also led her to freelance as a casting assistant for the last five years, working across film and TV.  She recently spent two months in Mexico & Dubai, working on a new televisions series as assistant to the directors. ​

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Lydia trained on the MA Drama Directing course at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2022-23.

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Current Work

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Associate Director | Cyrano de Bergerac, byEdmond Rostand,  adapted by Simon Evans & Debris Stevenson | Noel Coward Theatre 

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Upcoming Work

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Director | Cancer B*tch!, by Hannah Ali Khan 

Oxford Playhouse & Exeter Northcott 

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Jerwood Assistant Director | Eurotrash, by Christian Kracht, adapted by Colin Teevan | Young Vic 

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