Lucy Neal

 

Lucy Neal is an independent arts producer. She co-founded London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) in 1981 and was its co-director for twenty-five years, receiving an OBE in 2005 for her services to drama. She contributes to arts advisory panels in the UK and abroad, in addition to occasional writing and broadcasting. She is a Trustee of the Roundhouse Trust and a Board Member of the performance company Station House Opera. She is also initiator of Tooting as a Transition Town.

Having inherited archives from her great great aunt Mary Neal CBE, a social philanthropist and suffragette widely recognised as one of the great spirits behind the revival of the English Folk Song, Lucy is currently working on a series of arts events, symposia and broadcasts to acknowledge questions surrounding dance traditions, heritage and history.