Lucy River

Instructor

Lucy grew up in Ireland. She got her first professional short film role when she was eleven years old and appeared on national television (RTE) shows regularly as a teen performer and presenter, and in various ads after that. Age 13, she played Annie, in Annie the Musical, a professional production at the University of Limerick Concert Hall, and sang solo with the National RTE Concert Orchestra on stage the following year. Aged 16, she won Best Young Actress in the finals of the National All-Ireland Drama Festival for her portrayal as Tillie in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds. She was represented by TN Enterprises in Ireland, at age 14, and later, by Applause (in New Mexico). 

Before leaving Ireland for the US in the mid-2000’s, she toured with a Dublin-based theater group, BDNC Productions, in an improvised movement theater piece called Hyde and Jekyll, which they performed in the dungeons of Dublin Castle during the Dublin Fringe Festival, and again in Prague Theater Festival a year later. She later appeared as Maire in another BDNC production at the Pavilion in Dun Laoghaire. Lucy earned a Diploma in Speech and Drama Studies from the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin, and was admitted into the Bachelor in Acting program at the Samuel Beckett Center at Trinity College Dublin. She was graded top of her class at both conservatories. During her final year at DIT, she played Lucy Lockett in A Beggar’s Opera. During her first year at TCD she played Majella, a recurring role, in Pure Mule, a TV series set in the middle of Ireland, which was televised by RTE. She discovered longform improv in 2023. She is also a voice actor. Find her on vouces.com and IMDb.com.