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ABOUT

 

Lucy is an artist working on Gadigal and Dharawal land.

 

After studying a Bachelor of Performance at the University of Wollongong, Lucy left her home in the Gong and travelled to the big smoke, Sydney, where she has been working across the mainstage and independent sector ever since. She is represented by Morrissey Management.

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Lucy incorporates fresh original music into all her written work. Her prized project Party Girl (MerrigongX, Crack Theatre Festival, Adelaide Fringe Fest, KXT on Broadway, Edinburgh Fringe Festival) has toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. Party Girl won a Weekly Award for Best Theatre/Physical Theatre at the Adelaide Fringe in 2023 and was featured in Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe in Edinburgh in 2024.

 

​​Her latest project, Dog People, a new musical about dogs, was developed through MerrigongX in 2024 and 2025.

 

Her musicals for young people, Teen Angst (2022) and Tender (2023), were devised with the senior and junior ensembles at Shopfront Arts Co-Op.

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She has adapted two Shakespeare texts into contemporary musicals for Bachelor of Performance students at the University of Wollongong with long-time collaborator and partner in crime Tim Maddock. The Fool (2020 and 2025) is a fiercely feminist gender-bending take on King Lear. YEAH, NAH! (2021 and 2024) is a stupid and sexy retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream, first performed as a six-episode web series on YouTube and then brought to life on stage.

 

Lucy is also the creator of Stay at Home with Sprinkles, a musical web series made during Sydney’s 2021 lockdown.

 

As an actor, her most recent theatre credits include: The Midnight Gang (CDP), Luna Gale (Ensemble), Lost Boys (Merrigong Theatre Company), Single Asian Female (Belvoir St/La Boîte) and 4:48 Psychosis (Redline/ Workhorse productions).  

 

Lucy has worked as an Artist in Residence and Associate Producer for Voices of Women, taught workshops in theatre and songwriting to young people at ShopFront Arts Co-Op and Australian Theatre for Young People, and currently teaches speech and drama at the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music. 

 

When she’s not creating something, you will probably find Lucy walking her dog Tilda around the rocks at North Bondi. Hashtag Dog mum life.

© 2025 by Lucy Heffernan

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