Lucy Sheen is a poet, performer, and writer for stage and screen. Lucy’s debut documentary Abandoned, Adopted, Here which she wrote, produced and directed, has won global acclaim, and won an Golden Oniros for best screenwriting 2017.

In 2011, Lucy wrote and performed her first ever professionally produced solo theatre piece There Are Two Perfectly Good Me’s: One dead, the other unborn, a dramatic performance exploring the issues of growing up as a transracial adoptee in pre- multicultural 60s UK. In 2012, Lucy’s short play Waiting was selected for the REDfest 2012 new writers competition at The Old Red Lion Pub Theatre, and was restaged at the UntoldArts 2 event in December 2017.

In 2013, Lucy’s first ever private writing commission I.C.U. premiered at the Sonnet Theatre in New York. In 2015, she performed Ungrateful: A Paper-Daughter at The Southbank as part of Poetry International 2015. She then wrote Restrain Your Grief and Adapt to the Mishap for The Royal Court Theatre, which was longlisted for the OldVic12 2015. Her play Comfort Women was shown at the Women and War Festival in June 2017. Further writing for stage and screen includes I Am Not A Virus, I Know This Face and Go Back Home.

Lucy’s first chapbook of poetry Ungrateful: A Paper Daughter was published in 2017 by PoetsHaven. Lucy was longlisted for Live Canon’s Poetry First 2017. Her poetry and writing has also been published in the following anthologies: The Dance Is New, Poeming Pigeons, Aubade Issue Number 1, Perpetual Child, Dear Wonderful You, Flip the Script, Adoptionland, Adoption Therapy, Adoptee Survival Guide. Her play Conversations With My Unknown Mother was included in the 2018 anthology British East Asian Plays (Aurora Metro).

Upcoming work includes: Char Siu Bao, Tiffs Of Ordinary Madness, How The Pandemic Changed My Life, Under A Blood Red Moon, Nu Shu (Royal Court Theatre).