Lucie Dawkins

//current
> Artistic Director, SCRUM Theatre
> Associate Creative, Cheek by Jowl
> Associate Director, Krymov Lab

//training & education
> MFA Directing: David Geffen School of Drama at Yale (Cullman Scholar), 2015-18
> BA/MA Classics: Oxford (Double First, Scholar) 2010-14
> Junior Guildhall: Acting Department, 2005-10
 
//directing
> Agamemnon Returns, Zinnie Harris: RCSSD MA Acting, July 2026
> The Bough Breaks, Zinnie Harris (co-directed with Morwenna Rowe): RCSSD, July 2026
> Garage, Mika Myllyaho: New Nordics Festival, Jackson's Lane October 2022 
> Pentecost, David Edgar: David Geffen School of Drama at Yale
> The Hands that Could, Josh Wilder: DGSD Yale, May 2018
> Styx Songs, Devised: Yale Cabaret, October 2017
> The Ugly One, Marius von Mayenburg: Yale Cabaret, March 2017
> A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare: DGSD Yale, February 2017
> The Dog Pack Play, Majkin Holmquist: DGSD Yale, November 2015

//assistant directing
> Acting, film with Cheek by Jowl and Sophie Fiennes, 2025
> Macbeth workshop, Declan Donnellan: Cheek by Jowl 2019
> Happy Days, dir. James Bundy: Yale Rep, 2016

//translating & dramaturgy
> Aeschylus' Agamemnon: opera R&D, TFANA, 2020
> Euripides' Medea: Cheek by Jowl, National Theatre of Bulgaria, 2024
> Sophocles' Oedipus: Cheek by Jowl, Teatrul National Craiova, 2022
> Reconstruction of a Penthesilead from the Posthomerica and other fragments, ongoing

//books
> Obraz: Dmitry Krymov's Theatre, with Dmitry Krymov, currently under commission with Methuen
> The Actor and The Space, Declan Donnellan (NHB) created from interviews with and edited by Lucie Dawkins
> Museum Secrets (Ashmolean Museum)

//podcasts
> Not True, But Useful.... Cheek by Jowl (5 seasons, 2020-4)
> Museum Secrets, Ashmolean Museum (2 seasons, 2020-2)
> Fingerprints, Ashmolean Museum (1 seasons, 2021)
> Objects Out Loud, Ashmolean Museum (1 seasons, 2021)

//teaching & facilitation
> Visiting Director, MA Acting - RCSSD 2026
> Course Leader in Directing, Devising, and Shakespeare - SCRUM Labs, 2022 - present
> Director & Facilitator - Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation, 2023 - present
> Education consultant - Cheek by Jowl, 2022
> Open Course Leader in Shakespeare, Chekhov, Tragedy & Directing - GSMD, 2022 - present
> Visiting Lecturer in Shakespeare - Barbican, 2021
> TA Shakespeare in Performance - Yale, 2018
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//curation
> Freelance Producer and Curator, Ashmolean Museum audioguides, 2023
Overhauling the Ashmolean's audioguide offer, in collaboration with curators and community stakeholders, writing and producing three new tours designed to tell more diverse stories within the collections

> Installation commission, Yale University Arts Gallery, 2017
Transformation of two of YUAG's famous Louis Kahn staircases into live installations in collaboration with designers Yaara Bar and Fred Kennedy, transforming the museum's in-between spaces into human kaleidoscopes

> Young Curator, Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday programme, 2014-6
​Programming late-night free performance festivals in the museum to attract first-time young audiences. Each of the ten events welcomed 6,000 visitors, in nights with specially commissioned music, dance, opera, new writing, and installations