Spotlight

Actress Lucy Phelps leads a conversation series in the Salon inviting some of the biggest stars of the UK theatre industry to talk about their career highlights and life on stage and screen. Most of all, Lucy’s guests share some of their favourite anecdotes connected to the Gallery.

Lucy Phelps has performed leading roles with major companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Almeida, the National Theatre, Headlong, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Hampstead Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, and the Sydney Theatre Company. In 2023, Lucy represented the RSC at Windsor Castle for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, and her screen work spans Disney+, ITV, and the BBC, including 'The Chelsea Detective' (Seasons 1–4) and Mike Newell’s film 'The Bitter End' opposite Isabella Rossellini.

As a translator, she has worked with the Royal Court’s International Department, the Avignon Theatre Festival, and the Théâtre de la Colline; her debut translation, Alexandra Badea’s 'The Pulverised', premiered at the Arcola Theatre before a UK tour. An alumni of the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School, Lucy is now developing a new translation for the Orange Tree Theatre’s Writers’ Collective. Lucy also teaches Shakespeare, while collaborating on research into Susanna Shakespeare and women’s theatre history.