Lucy Mellors is an award-winning theatre maker, writer and opera singer from Southampton. Her show It is I, Seagull toured around the UK and to Australia, earning five star reviews, a ‘Best of Theatre 2025’ award at the Adelaide Fringe and baffling some people who didn't expect to watch someone singing Queen of the Night dressed as a cosmonaut, eating steak and pissing everywhere... but that's art! Or maybe it is, she's not really sure.

Lu created IS OPERA BORING? in collaboration with the Phoenix Theatre and boogie-woogie pianist Mark Hoare, which is intended to be a merry gateway drug into the world of opera and a celebration of music, therapy and intergenerational and cross-genre friendship! Following a sold out run at the Phoenix, and performances at The Arc, Winchester and Southampton’s first ever Fringe festival, this show will return in 2026.

She is currently writing three new shows - Sexy But Psycho, The Jane Austen Fan Club and The Traitors: The Opera. She works as a comedy consultant, writer and performer of other people’s stuff if it looks fun enough. She also co-runs Gosport Creates, a participatory arts programme for women in Gosport.

Lu has a Masters with Distinction in Opera Performance from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and worked with English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Grimeborn Festival, Mid Wales Opera and Longborough Festival Opera before making her own shows.

Lu is a supported artist at Mayflower Studios, Proteus Theatre and Lighthouse, Poole. Her work is funded by Arts Council England, The Fenton Arts Trust, Winship Foundation, Hampshire Cultural Trust, Gosport Borough Council, Hampshire County Council, Dayas Music Scholarship and the Richmond Douglas Charitable Trust.

You can read more about Lu here.

You can read more about Gosport Creates here.

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