About

Lucy Thornett is a scenographer and a senior lecturer at the University of the Arts, London. She makes site-specific and immersive performances and installations for theatres, galleries and other spaces. She has also designed sets and costumes for numerous performances.

Lucy is currently co-curator (with Kathrine Sandys) of hello stranger: national exhibition of UK performance design 2019-2023 - consisting of a festival of performance design taking place throughout the UK in March 2023, the UK exhibit at the 2023 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, and a three-part publication series published by Performance Research books. She is also associate editor reviews for Theatre and Performance Design journal, and an AHRC-funded PhD candidate in scenography at the University of Leeds.

l.thornett@lcc.arts.ac.uk