Background
Bailey was born in Butleigh, Somerset in South-West England.
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Lucy Bailey
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Lucy Bailey studied English at Street Peter"s College Oxford.
Career
She has stated that her favourite films include anything by Pasolini. As a teenager Bailey was an excellent flautist but was told by her flute teacher to give it up in order to pursue her goals in theatre. Bailey stated that it was the best advice anyone had ever given her.
Bailey became interested in the theatre when she worked with opera singers as a telephonist at Glyndebourne.
She was only 17 years old. Bailey was recorded to have had her first breakthrough when she wrote to Samuel Beckett when she was 20 years old.
She had asked him if he could give her permission to stage his short story, Lessness. She was able to show him her design for it, and although he said she had got it completely wrong, he gave her permission to stage it anyway.
Bailey co-founded the Gogmagogs musical theatre company in 1995.
After that she was able to work as an assistant director at the Royal National Theatre, Glyndebourne Opera and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has directed Shakespeare to much acclaim, notably productions at the Globe including Titus Andronicus and Macbeth and at the Royal Society of Chemistry in Stratford-upon-Avon including The Taming of the Shrew, A Winter"s Tale and Julius Caesar. 2006 - Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare"s Globe).
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Nationality
United Kingdom