Abbie Lucas

Abbie Lucas is a film director. As a storyteller, she crafts stories with flawed relationships, female protagonists, vigilantes, crime, and a bit of magical realism. She is known for exploring dark themes in humorous and unexpected ways. In 2018, Levile TV listed her as one of the Top 20 Rising Female Filmmakers in the UK.

Lucas’ credits include a black and white screwball comedy web series A Quick Fortune, which was selected for Raindance and Miami Web Fest, earning her a best director nomination. Her award winning Testing Greta is an unusual story about domestic abuse which took the ‘Greeks of the World’ Prize at the 40th Drama Film Festival in Greece. Voices, which was  awarded ‘best drama’ at the BIFA qualifying Beeston Film Festival and has been officially selected into over 40 festivals including, most notably, the Academy Qualifying Seattle Independent Film Festival and the BAFTA Qualifying Aesthetica Film Festival.

As a theatre director, Lucas has worked at The Criterion, Soho Theatre, Pleasance London, Southwark Playhouse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Theatre 503, The Old Red Lion, Tristan Bates, Riverside Studios, Arts at the Old Fire Station in Oxford, and the Groundlings Theatre in Portsmouth.