Lucy McCormick

Lucy is a talented actor/writer/performer, who has received several Offie nominations.

She can currently be seen starring as Annabelle West in Carl Grose's adaptation of THE CAT AND THE CANARY at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Earlier in 2024, Lucy received rave reviews for her starring role in Charlie Josephine's production of COWBOIS at the RSC.

Emma Pallant and Lucy McCormick (a dead ringer for Katherine Parkinson in her skittish comic bluster) are a riot as the repressed wives flapping their fans with increasing zeal. The Guardian ★★★★

‘The cast rise to the occasion, with Lucy McCormick’s lust-riddled frontier wife and LJ Parkinson’s non-binary bandit provoking particularly loud laughs’ The Telegraph ★★★★

‘…it’s a riotous piece of theatre that provides joyous representation of nonbinary characters (and actors) without ever seeming preachy or defensive.’ WhatsOnStage ★★★★

‘With an empowering message to choose yourself and fight for love, Cowbois is well worth the trip to Stratford-upon-Avon and is deserving of a further life long after this run ends.’  West End Best Friend ★★★★★

Over the summer of 2023, Lucy took her latest live show - Lucy and Friends - to the Edinburgh Fringe. Hilariously subversive, deliriously anarchic, Lucy's performance swept up rapturous reviews:

"McCormick’s genius as an artist is the way she pushes the limits, testing herself and us, the way she makes exploration of community, friendship and loneliness as integral to a piece as the vagina stuff, fusing emotional and bodily mess, while somehow making the whole chaotic experience enormous fun to watch." The Stage, ★★★★

"McCormick is a powerhouse performer, flicking from moment to moment, from terrifying, to sobbing, to sultry, to raging at the machine." -Broadway Baby, ★★★★ 

"If you want outrageous cabaret, songs, jokes, sketches and a bit of emotional depth, all from a supernova performer, you should get into McCormick’s friendship circle soonest"- Chortle, ★★★★ 

"Magnificently anarchic one-woman cabaret revue from live art provocateur Lucy McCormick" Time Out, ★★★★

"Without a doubt, Lucy McCormick's show “Lucy & Friends” is one of the craziest I’ve seen in Edinburgh for a long time - and gloriously so. Who ever listed this under theatre needs to have their head examined. Essentially a piss take of everything from cabaret, performers at the fringe, reviewers, performance art, dumbfounding but strangely relatable close-to-being-sectioned millennial angst, and done with such a brave ferocity, there is no way this is theatre. But theatre’s loss is comedy’s gain." - Omid Djalili

From January to April 2023, Lucy took to the stage as Saturnius in the Globe’s all-female production of TITUS ANDRONICUS.

Lucy's performance in the deadly revenge tragedy received excellent reviews:

'The ten-strong cast contribute many powerful performances​. Lucy McCormick is wonderfully petulant as the newly-installed Roman Emperor Saturninus' ★★★★★ BroadwayWorld

‘McCormick is a star of cabaret and absurdist comedy – it’s a joy to watch her mine some of Shakespeare’s stodgiest lines for unexpected laughs.’ iNews

‘A brilliantly provocative show with an all-female ensemble’  ★★★★ The Guardian

Throughout 2022, Lucy McCormick could be seen playing the lead role of Cathy in WUTHERING HEIGHTS. After its run at the National Theatre, the production transferred to St Ann’s Warehouse in NYC. Her performance was really something to behold. The Times called it, “Emotionally epic entertainment,” in its 5 star review and noted Lucy’s performance as “Abrasively charismatic”. The Daily Mail praised Lucy’s “compelling” performance and labelled the show - “A wildly imaginative, exhilarating piece of theatre,” in its 5 star review. Elsewhere, the play has received 4 star write-ups from The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph and The Stage.

In 2021, Lucy could be seen in the BBC's - THIS TIME WITH ALAN PARTRIDGE.

She took her show POST POPULAR to the the Edinburgh Festival 2019 which received rave reviews. 

‘Funny and vulgar, vulnerable and sharp-eyed, savage and sweet.’ ★★★★★ The Scotsman

'Utterly indelicate and completely unpredictable', 'As trashy and crass as it is honest and exposing.' ✭✭✭✭ The Guardian

‘Lucy McCormick doesn’t hold back . . . confrontational and shocking.’ ✭✭✭✭ The Evening Standard

‘The queen of performance art . . . thank goodness for Lucy McCormick.’ ✭✭✭✭  The List

'A genuine triple threat’ ✭✭✭✭  The Independent

‘Twisted brilliance . . . you will be fixated, mesmerised and stupefied.’ ✭✭✭✭ BroadwayWorld

'McCormick holds the audience in the palm of her hand . . . essential and unmissable.'  ★★★★★ 730 Review

‘A real force to be reckoned with.' ★★★★★ UK Theatre Web 

‘Leaves the audience open-mouthed . . . breathtaking and hilarious.' ★★★★ The Wee Review 

‘The craziest hour of Fringe madness you'll see this year.’ ★★★★ British Theatre Guide 

‘Wild, bold, unpredictable and filthy’ ★★★★ Three Weeks 

She recently featured in Universal's FAST AND FURIOUS: HOBBS & SHAW and Sky's PEACOCK, opposite Dominic Cooper. In 2017, she won the Best Performer award at the Dublin Fringe Festival and was nominated for the Award for an Emerging Artist at the Total Theatre Awards in Edinburgh. 

As a writer, Lucy has shows in developlment with several production companies.

Her hit show TRIPLE THREAT took the Edinburgh Fringe by storm and had several sell-out runs at the Soho Theatre before travelling around the globe. TRIPLE THREAT showed post-popular prodigy Lucy McCormick and her Girl Squad presenting a provocative, subversive cabaret retelling of the greatest story of all time. Lucy received a nomination for the TBC Award at the 2018 Off West End (Offie) Awards for TRIPLE THREAT.

Reviews for Lucy's TRIPLE THREAT:

'A filthy and utterly hilarious New Wave Testament by the smart and fearless Lucy McCormick' ✭✭✭✭ The Stage

'One of the most extraordinary and extreme performers on the Fringe' ✭✭✭✭ The Scotsman

'Lucy McCormick makes her solo debut with what is either the best or the worst show at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe – or probably more accurately, both at the same time' ✭✭✭✭✭ Time Out

Lucy recently recieved rave reviews for The Gate/ENO’s production of EFFIGIES OF WICKEDNESS:

“McCormick’s rendition of Brecht and Eisler’s Paragraph 218 (Abortion is Illegal) . . . is devastating. The show is at once a wild pleasure, and deadly serious. With our world continuing to whirl in its own insanity, what better time to come to the cabaret?” ★★★★ The Stage

“ Lucy McCormick is hilarious . . . Another of these cabarets soon, please.” ★★★★ The Independent

“Lucy McCormick injects notes of manic provocation . . . Ellen McDougall’s deliberately chaotic staging is funny and surprising.” ★★★★ Evening Standard

“The real USP of this show seems to be to serve as a vehicle for its four terrific performers – and they really are superb.” ★★★★ Time Out

“There are astonishing numbers here . . . laughs come from the exuberantly self-debunking Lucy McCormick.” ★★★★ The Times

“In the best traditions of subversion – and inclusion – it tramples down barriers,” ★★★★ The Observer

“Actress Lucy McCormick’s rendition of Hollaender’s “Sex Appeal” is unexpectedly devastating.” ★★★★ The Arts Desk

She played a lead role in Jen Silverman's play COLLECTIVE RAGE at the Southwark Playhouse in early 2018 and received an Offie nomination for Best Female for her portrayal of Bettie. The play itself was also nominated for an Offie and received some great write-ups:

‘Beautifully absurd, extremely funny and self-referential… Unapologetically feminist and queer…’ ★★★★ The Stage

‘Beautifully crafted to deconstruct the society in which it exists… admirably fierce and triumphantly queer.’ ★★★★★ London Theatre 1

‘It’s a glorious, rollicking riot of a play which pushes absurdity to the limit – but never at the cost of its soppy human heart.’ ★★★★ The Arts Desk 

Lucy played the lead role in the Soho Theatre's production, ROLLER DINER, in May and June of 2017. The show received rave reviews, with Upcoming calling it a “classic like Rocky Horror”. 

In 2017 Lucy won the TV Bomb Groundbreaker Award, was announced as an Artist in Residence for the Royal Vauxhall Tavern’s DUCKIE nights, and became a Research Fellow in the Department of English Drama at Queen Mary University London.

Further reviews for Lucy:

'Lucy McCormick has the moves of Beyonce, the lungs of Christina Aguilera and the morals of a punk iconoclast... As a comedian she is fearless. As a performer she is reckless... She is one of the most extraordinary and extreme performers on the Fringe' - The Scotsman

'A boundary-pulverising event... Fantastically entertaining' - The Guardian

'Shocking, hilarious and profound' - Exeunt

‘Joyously depraved.’ - Time Out

‘Triple Threat is a minor miracle.’ -  WhatsOnStage

‘A phenomenally watchable performer. With McCormick, anything is a possibility. She floats on the present moment, and there’s no knowing how far she’ll go.’ - Matt Trueman