Lucy Mellors lives by the sea in Hampshire, which she loves. She also loves all things opera (except all-male creative teams) and wants everyone around her to love opera too. 

Lu fuses comedy, opera, pop music, clown & performance art to surprise & delight audiences, using the personal to comment on the political. She trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, gaining an MA with Distinction in Opera Performance, and winning the Dolan-Evans Memorial Prize, the Valetta Iacopi Aria Prize, & the Seligman Award for Excellence two years running. Lu has worked with English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Grimeborn Festival, Mid Wales Opera and Longborough Festival Opera. She also has a BA (Hons) First Class degree in English and Drama from the University of Kent.

Lu’s first show was It is I, Seagull, a unique and powerful cross-genre theatre show exploring self-esteem, joy, failure, opera and space travel. Seagull toured nationally (2023-2025) and internationally (2025) after receiving a grant from the Australian Government and Arts Unlimited, winning a ‘Best of Theatre’ award at the Adelaide Fringe. Her second show IS OPERA BORING? (about joy, therapy and accessibility) had a sellout run at the Phoenix Theatre (2024) and will tour again in 2026. She is currently working on Sexy But Psycho, a comedy musical show about love, power, trauma, Taylor Swift and cats.

Lu co-runs Gosport Creates, a participatory arts programme that provides free, regular creative opportunities for women in Gosport. We use photography, creative writing, visual arts and drama to provoke joy and increase confidence. We weren’t allowed to call it drama though, as that word is scary. So we all ended up calling it ‘non-drama’, or ‘the silly club’.

Lu has performed works such as Bach St Matthew Passion and Magnificat, Vivaldi Gloria, Mozart Requiem, Mass in C minor and Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Dvorak Stabat Mater, Poulenc Gloria, Schubert Mass in G, Brahms Requiem and Mendelssohn Hear My Prayer throughout the UK and Europe. She has worked as an Assistant Director for Welsh National Opera’s production of Crew!, for RWCMD’s production of Falstaff, for Gloucester and Worcester Cathedrals’ joint production of Noye’s Fludde, and for English National Opera’s Opera Squad project. Directing credits include Britten’s The Little Sweep for Pocket Opera, as well as Bute Park Opera’s double bill of Vaughan Williams Riders to the Sea and Berkeley A Dinner Engagement. In 2025, she was commissioned by the Mayflower Ensemble to rewrite and perform the narration for Martinů’s random ballet about kitchen utensils that fancy each other, La Revue de Cuisine.

Prior to training as a singer, Lucy was an actor in The Pantaloons theatre company, performing in national tours of Much Ado About Nothing (Hero), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), A Christmas Carol (Belle), Romeo & Juliet (Juliet/Tybalt), The Canterbury Tales (Second Nun/Emily), Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Dortchen) and The Importance of Being Earnest (Cecily).

Lu’s studies were generously supported by the following scholarships and foundations:
Leverhulme Scholarship, Richmond Douglas Charitable Trust, Sir Richard Stapley Trust, Sidney Perry Foundation, Aspinwall Educational Trust, Women’s Careers Foundation, South Square Trust, Yorkshire Ladies’ Council of Education, Mario Lanza Educational Foundation, and the Worshipful Company of Builders’ Merchants.

Many thanks to you all you bunch of legends x