Lucy is an author, screenwriter and director from Edinburgh and based in London. She started her career in Shanghai and trained in directing at Columbia University’s MFA in Film Programme. Her acclaimed debut novel Shanghai Passenger was published in 2017 by Blue Mark Books. Her debut feature film as a Writer/Director, Body of Water, premiered at Glasgow Film Festival 2020 and was released by Verve Pictures that year to excellent reviews. Developed as part of Film London’s Microwave initiative, it was funded by BBC Films, BFI and Boudicca Films and starred Sian Brooke and Amanda Burton. Lucy was nominated for a BAFTA Scotland for Best Writer for the Screenplay. She is now developing a number of feature and television projects with Screen Scotland, Red Planet Pictures, Red Breast Productions and more. Lucy is Assistant Professor in Writing on the University of Warwick’s prestigious Writing Programme.

FILM and TV 

ORIGINAL UNTITLED TV DRAMA 2024
Writer-director
In Development
Red Planet Pictures

BODY OF WATER
2020
Feature, starring Sian Brooke and Amanda Burton
Writer-Director
Film London Microwave scheme, with BFI and BBC Films
Recipient of the John Brabourne Award
Glasgow Film Festival Premiere
Empire 4*, Daily Mirror, Guardian 3*, Mark Kermode, Radio Times 4* Little White Lies 4*

SEX EDUCATION Series 2
2020
Content for digital platform
Director
Bear Jam Productions/ Netflix

THE SPACE IN BETWEEN
Short
Writer-Director
Screenings: Whitechapel Gallery and Aesthetica Film Festival

BABE
Short
Writer/ Director/ Producer
Shy Child Productions

SCREENWRITING

THE BOY WHO DIED COMFORTABLY
Feature
Writer
Shortlisted for Sundance Institute Writer’s Lab

STEPHEN & ANNA
2013
Co-writer

SO IT GOES
2011
Short
Writer/Producer

SELECTED LITERARY AND EDITORIAL CREDITS

Lucy is the Screenwriting Fellow on the Warwick University Writing Programme and blogs for Little White Lies on the subject of film-making.

Shanghai Passenger
Novel
2015
Blue Mark Books

Awards and Grants

British Council Research and Development Grant for Literature
Euro Connection, selected by the British Council
John Brabourne Award
Edinburgh International Film Festival Network Programme