Dr Lucy Tyler

Lucy Tyler is a scholar, performance maker, dramaturg and emerging somatic movement practitioner. Her written work explores embodied and creative artistic processes, focusing on how artists and writers develop themselves and their work. She has over fifteen years’ experience of teaching performance making in Higher Education. In her scholarship, Lucy foregrounds anti-capitalist and anti-rascist Marxian methods to contribute to decolonisation, decommodification and democratisation of the arts. She is author of numerous articles and chapters on performance development and the forthcoming English Play Development under Neoliberalism (Cambridge, 2024). As a producer of new performance for diverse communities, she is PI on the Arts Council-funded Work in Progress which seed-funds and facilitates new performance making. Her performance practice is one in which intermedial embodiment exposes the interrelationships of care, m/othering, and ecology. Lucy is one half of Elements Eco Soma Lab, based at Ayres House Studios, Oxfordshire. Elements creates eco somatic workshops and movement series for artists, body practitioners and curious beings. Before beginning her professional somatic training, Lucy has practised performance focused devising, direct expression, Iyengar and Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga for 20 years.