Lucy Moss
Lucy Amelia Nancy Moss (born 13 January 1994) is a British writer, director, and composer best known for co-creating the hit musical Six with Toby Marlow.[1] As director of most Six productions, Moss became the youngest ever female director of a Broadway musical at 26.[2][3]
Lucy Moss
Lucy Amelia Nancy Moss
13 January 1994
Hammersmith, London, England
- Writer
- director
- composer
2014–present
For its West End run, Six was voted Best New Musical of the Decade by readers of WhatsOnStage and received five Olivier Award nominations.[4][5] Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical with Jamie Armitage,[6] Moss alongside Marlow won the Tony Award for Best Original Score in 2022.[7]
Before theatres reopened in 2021, Moss directed the virtual benefit performance of Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical.[8] In 2022, Moss directed a new production of Legally Blonde: The Musical at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London.[9][10]
Early life and education[edit]
Moss grew up in Ealing, West London.[11] Her father, Robert Moss, was a fund manager who died when Lucy was 14.[11] Her mother Julie is a tax adviser.[11][12] Lucy became interested in musical theatre and dance through her local ballet school.[11] Lucy attended St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, graduating in 2011. She attended Laine Theatre Arts for two years, during which she worked as a cage dancer at Cyberdog in Camden Market.[13][12]
Moss then attended Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[12][1] Much of her focus was on feminist and revisionist history.[14] During her first year, Moss co-directed the Cambridge Amateur Dramatic Club production of Road at the ADC Theatre,[14][15] which led to her first meeting with Toby Marlow, who was in the audience.[14] In 2015, she was an assistant director for Ajax440, a student play about game addiction, which Marlow appeared in.[14][16] That year, she also appeared as a dancer in a Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club production of the musical Rent, which featured Marlow and Zak Ghazi-Torbati in leading roles.[17]