Currently directing at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Lucy Moss shares what she thinks are the most important qualities for a theatre leader with Frances Hedges.
Lucy Moss is something of a phenomenon in the world of theatre. While still an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, she composed and co-wrote the pop musical Six, based on the story of Henry VIII and his six wives, with her fellow finalist Toby Marlow. They took it to the Edinburgh Fringe, where it was picked up to go on show at London’s Arts Theatre in 2017, before going on a UK tour and subsequently getting its US premiere in Chicago in 2019.
“We thought of it as a summer project, but it just became incrementally bigger, and suddenly I was on this rollercoaster,” recalls Moss. Aged 26, she became the youngest ever woman to direct a show on Broadway when the production opened there in February 2020; although the pandemic slowed down its rollout, this year sees Six touring internationally, as well as running in the US and Broadway.
Moss, who is a director as well as a writer and composer, is currently masterminding a new adaptation of the much-loved film Legally Blonde at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, which opened earlier this month to rave reviews...Keep reading on Harper's Bazaar.
Lucy Moss is something of a phenomenon in the world of theatre. While still an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, she composed and co-wrote the pop musical Six, based on the story of Henry VIII and his six wives, with her fellow finalist Toby Marlow. They took it to the Edinburgh Fringe, where it was picked up to go on show at London’s Arts Theatre in 2017, before going on a UK tour and subsequently getting its US premiere in Chicago in 2019.
“We thought of it as a summer project, but it just became incrementally bigger, and suddenly I was on this rollercoaster,” recalls Moss. Aged 26, she became the youngest ever woman to direct a show on Broadway when the production opened there in February 2020; although the pandemic slowed down its rollout, this year sees Six touring internationally, as well as running in the US and Broadway.
Moss, who is a director as well as a writer and composer, is currently masterminding a new adaptation of the much-loved film Legally Blonde at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, which opened earlier this month to rave reviews...Keep reading on Harper's Bazaar.