Lucy Sheen

London, United Kingdom

Work Experience

Theatre Exchange

Freelance actor/writer

An extract from one of my plays Conversations With My Unknown Mother was performed
Pik Sen Lim played Fei Yen and Eugenia Low played Michelle
Directed by Michael Clifford
January 2014 - January 2014 Coventry, United Kingdom

An-ya Project

Freelance writer

Perpetual Child: An Adult Adoptee Anthology
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Yellow Earth Theatre

Freelance actor

Salt Monkey by Sherry Chen
Played the Mother
November 2013 - November 2013 London, United Kingdom

British East Asian Artists

freelance actor/writer/creative consultant

What Happens After Opening The Door
Organised public debate (including some amazing food courtesy of Geoff Leong)
with industry professionals and creative academics to discuss why East Asians still suffer from stereotypical and racist portrayals
October 2013 - October 2013 London, United Kingdom

Coventry School Of Design And Art

Freelance actor

New play by Vanessa Oakes about George Elliot
I played Akiko Japanese English teacher who is an Elliot "fan"
September 2013 - September 2013 Coventry, United Kingdom

Mardiobooks

freelance writer

One of the writers chosen for inclusion into the new poetry anthology The Dance Is New
August 2013 - August 2013 London, United Kingdom

Tavistock Institute

Freelance transracial adoptee speacker

Invited speaker to talk to a group of professionals on the experience of being a transracial adoptee
June 2013 - June 2013 London, United Kingdom

Tamasha

Freelance actor

Tamasha's Night of Cultural Defiance
Tamasha is back with five bold and powerful pieces placing the artist in the role of activist. From the resilience of a family in Syria to dark humour in Tibet, the pieces featured will vary in both content and form, ranging from dance to poetry to new writing. The event will be host to Tibet House by Bettina Gracias, Hiraeth by Alys Hughes and Elly Strigner, The Cost of Eggs by Yamina Bakiri, When the Messiah Comes by Akkas Al-Ali and hard-hitting performance poetry by Avaes Mohammad.
January 2013 - January 2013 London, United Kingdom

British East Asian Artists

Founding member

To raise the profile of BRITISH EAST ASIAN ARTISTS* nationally as well as in London. To promote Cultural Exchange. To challenge prejudice & stereotyping

*all who live and work in the UK, in the creative sector and are of SouthEast/East Asian origin
October 2012 - Present London, United Kingdom

Casanova Multimedia

Freelance actor

Freelance actor for Luca Barbareschi's latest feature film SOMETHING GOOD now in post production
June 2012 - July 2012 Rome, Italy

REDFest 2012

Freelance actor, writer

Freelance actor writer. WAITING a new short theatre piece was chosen to be one of the participating entries in the REDFest new writers festival 2012
March 2012 - April 2012 London, United Kingdom

True Heart Theatre

Associate Director

Responsible for the scripted production work for True Heart Theatre. To help implement, develop and roll out high calibre and high standard theatrical productions that are Chinese-based, that reflect the experience of the British-Chinese or that of the wider Chinese, Southeast and East Asian Diaspora. To help design, develop programs that will develop the audience and artist of tomorrow
January 2012 - December 2012 London, United Kingdom

True Heart Theatre

In The Mirror

Three women, three stories, from the Chinese diaspora
November 2011 - November 2011 London, United Kingdom

True Heart Theatre

Freelance actor

Rehearsed reading of the Gao Xin-jiang the Nobel prize winning playwright.
October 2011 - October 2011 United Kingdom

True Heart Theatre

73a

73A is a bus route in Hong Kong. A mother and son take a 45-minute bus journey to visit the dying father. The play offers a funny and poignant insight into the lives of Hong Kong people. It is also a mirror to family relationships all over the world.

73A is written by award-winning Hong Kong playwright, Yat-Yau; and directed by Wing-Hong Li, Co-Artistic Director of True Heart Theatre. Casts: English - Lucy Sheen and Lap Kung Chan; Cantonese - Veronica Needa and Ka Man Ip.
May 2011 - May 2011 London, United Kingdom

Sheffield Crucible Theatre

Plenty

David Hare is often celebrated as being one of the most influential British playwrights of our time. Hare’s writing career began with Slag, in 1970 which won him the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. His 1978 play, Plenty, which he described as the piece he had “been trying to write for a long time”, found success at the National Theatre and on Broadway. Plenty is being presented as part of a major season of Hare’s works at Sheffield Theatres, which includes productions of The Breath of Life and Racing Demon, as well as several other related events.
Set during the war in occupied France and in post-war Belgium and Britain it spans a timeline from 1943 to 1962, telling the story of former Special Operations agent Susan Traherne. The play starts with a scene from Easter 1962, then goes back to wartime, progressing chronologically to June 1962 and finally slipping back to wartime liberation for the last scene. The action takes place in Knightsbridge, Saint-Benoît, Brussels, Pimlico, Embankment, Whitehall and even Blackpool.
February 2011 - February 2011 Sheffield, United Kingdom

The Orange Tree Theatre

Hungry Ghosts

Top British racing driver Tyler Jones arrives in Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix. His life is made up of airports, hotels, racetracks, corporate events and brolly dollies. For Tyler, Shanghai is no different from Bahrain or Melbourne. He's happy to toe the corporate party line as long as he can do what he lives to do: race cars. But when he meets and falls for Chinese dissident Pin-de, their worlds collide. Racing ambition seems suddenly futile set against Pin-de's struggle for survival. How can he square his newfound awareness about the reality of life and death in China, and help Pin-de, without losing everything he has?

Cast: Andres Williams, Lourdes Faberes, Lucy Sheen, Barry Stanton and Benedict Wong.
November 2010 - December 2010 Richmond, Surrey, UK

City & Hackney Primary Care Psychotherapy Consultation Service

Invited to speak to a group of professionals on the challenges and experience of being a transracial adoptee
December 2013 - December 2013 London, United Kingdom

Awards

Off West End Theatre Awards

Nominated as best actress in a play for my performance in Hungry Ghosts

201012

Theatre Managament Association (TMA Theatre Awards)

Nominated for best supporting actress in a play for my performance in Drink The Mercury

199109

Skills

Flute, Cockney Accent, Digital Artist, Reads Music, RP, Saxaphone, Web Designer, Welsh Vallies Accent,