Lucy McCormick is a performance artist and actress in films and stage productions. Her works are a mixture of multiple disciplines, such as performance art, theatre, dance and comedy. One of her most notable works is Triple Threat for which she won the Best Performer Award at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2017.[1]
McCormick was born in Newcastle, and trained in Acting at East 15.[2]
Career
editSolo shows
editTriple Threat
editMcCormick's debut headline show, Triple Threat, was an hour-long performance directed by Ursula Martinez Together with two supporting dancers who she calls her Girl Squad, McCormick performed a retelling of the New Testament where she played Jesus alongside other roles. It was made to be a spectacle with absurd art, dancers and pop songs. The show explores gender dynamics in society and how they are not only a disadvantage to women but also often violent to women.[3] The show started out as multiple separate cabaret acts she had performed at club nights like Duckie.[4] After her debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2016, she went on a UK and international tour. With Triple Threat She won the Best Performer Award at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2017.[1]
Post-Popular
editIn Post-Popular, McCormick paid tribute to important women in history including Boudica and Anne Boleyn.[5] This show consists of pop ballads, art and dancing.[6]
Life: LIVE!
editIn 2019, McCormick created her first music show called Life: LIVE! in which she talked about her earlier aspirations to be a pop star. The show discusses subjects such as false dreams and misogyny.[7]
Lucy and Friends
editMcCormick's last and current show is called Lucy and Friends (2021). The original show was supposed to be with five performers but because of COVID and not getting Arts Council funding, she decided to do it by herself. The show is built like a cabaret show with lots of acts but just one performer doing all of it by herself.[1]
Theatre productions
editMcCormick has an acting degree from East 15[1] and she has been part of the cast of several theatre productions[8] such as:
- Cowbois at the Swan Theatre[9]
- Titus Andronicus at the Globe Theatre
- Wuthering Heights at the National Theatre[10]
- First Love is the Revolution at Soho Theatre
- Lessons for Life at Battersea Arts Centre
- Dear Elizabeth at the Gate Theatre
- Effigies of Wickedness at Gate Theatre and the English National Opera
Films
editMcCormick also works as a screen actress. Films she has been involved with are Sparks, Fast and Furious: Hobbs & Shaw and Exhibition of a Film.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Lucy McCormick: 'I feel a responsibility to go too far'". The Stage.
- ^ "Lucy McCormick: 'I feel a responsibility to go too far'". The Stage. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
- ^ Harvie, Jen (May 24, 2019). "Feminism, audience interaction, and performer authority 1". Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances. Routledge. pp. 141–151. doi:10.4324/9780429198274-12. ISBN 978-0-429-19827-4.
- ^ Logan, Brian (September 1, 2016). "Lucy McCormick, the fringe messiah making a cabaret of Christianity". The Guardian.
- ^ Wyver, Kate (2019-08-05). "Lucy McCormick review – caustically candid comedy about history's famous women". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
- ^ Wyver, Kate (August 5, 2019). "Lucy McCormick review – caustically candid comedy about history's famous women". The Guardian.
- ^ Patey-Ferguson, Phoebe (December 22, 2021). "Review: Life: LIVE!, by Lucy McCormick, Fierce Festival, Birmingham (UK), 19 October 2019". Volupté. 4 (2): 208–215 – via journals.gold.ac.uk.
- ^ a b "LUCY McCORMICK (she/her)". Royal Court.
- ^ "RSC announces casting for queer cowboy show Cowbois". August 31, 2023.
- ^ "Lucy McCormick and Ash Hunter discuss starring in Emma Rice's Wuthering Heights". November 5, 2021.