Lucy Rossen

Bio

Lucy Rossen is a Sydney-based actor and director working across stage and screen. Her practice is collaborative and community driven, with a focus on creating playful work that explores rhythm, sensation, and form to express the human experience.

Lucy holds an MFA in directing from NIDA and a BFA in acting from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

As a performer, she’s drawn to comedic characters, physically intense worlds, and dialect driven work. Her screen credits include Different Things (Wr. Grace Chappel, Dir. Murray Enders; St Kilda Film Festival, Flickerfest), We Never Asked for This (Wr./Dir. Ella Lawry; MIFF), and Drain Rats (Wr./Dir. Gracie Dephoff). Her stage credits include Cactus by Madeline Nunn (Dir. Katie Cawthorne) and Earthquakes in London by Mike Bartlett (Dir. Sarah Goodes).

Her directing credits include Tonsils and Tweezers by Will O’Mahoney at The Old Fitz Theatre; DARLING BOY by Rupert Bevan, presented at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival, and Sydney WorldPride; and À La Carte, a devised piece for the NIDA Festival of Emerging Artists.

As an assistant director, she has worked with Tue Biering on Fix+Foxy’s The Village in Copenhagen, Sarah Goodes on the remount of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Melbourne Comedy Theatre, and Claudia Osborne on NIDA’s Spring Awakening.

On screen, Lucy has directed music videos for Alex the Astronaut (Businessman, NUMB) and JUPiTA (REAL! Not Everything Is…), and often works across production and production design for short films and large-scale commercial projects.

Upcoming projects include feature film Honeymoon With Harry (Amazon MGM) starring alongside Kevin Costner, Jake Gyllenhaal and Sarah Pidgeon.