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Jessica Lazar

Director

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Jessica Stewart

Jessica Lazar is an Offie-nominated freelance director of theatre and audio, and part of award-winning theatre company Atticist.

She was an EVOLVE Artist in Residence at Oxford Playhouse in 2019/20 and a Mercury Creative at Mercury Theatre, Colchester in 2021/22. Her productions have won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award, inaugural SIT-Up Award for ‘social impact theatre’, Lustrum Award, SoHo Playhouse Medal of Excellence, and been nominated for fourteen Off West End Awards including Best Director and Best Production, as well as the Holden Street Theatre Award and Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award.

Theatre credits include: Daisy Hall’s Bellringers (Hampstead Theatre, Roundabout @ Summerhall 2024, Rafaella Marcus’s Sap (UK Tour & Soho Theatre 2023, Roundabout @ Summerhall 2022, Vaults 2020) and The Gift (Oxford Playhouse 2021), Lisa D’Amour’s Anna Bella Eema (Arcola 2019), Iman Qureshi’s this is a love story and Sam Potter’s The Unicorn (North Wall Arts Centre 2019), David Greig’s Outlying Islands (Jermyn Street Theatre, 2025, King’s Head Theatre 2019), Christina Murdock’s Dangerous Giant Animals (Edinburgh Fringe / United Solo Fest New York / Park Theatre 2018), Steven Berkoff’s East (King’s Head Theatre, 2018), and Katherine Rundell’s Life According to Saki (Edinburgh Fringe 2016 / New York Theatre Workshop Fourth Street Theatre 2017).

Audio credits include: Tajinder Singh Hayer’s Ghost Stories From An Old Country (2021, Papatango/ETT), Margaret Perry’s A Passion Play and Rafalla Marcus’s The You Play Vols. 1 – 2 (2020, Written on the Waves series).

Credits

THEATRE
Date: 2025
Production (role):
MEMORIAM
Company:
Royal Court Theatre
Project details:
by Noga Flaishon

Staged reading as part of the Royal Court's inaugural Open Submissions Festival
Date: 2025
Production (role):
OUTLYING ISLANDS
Company:
Atticist / Jermyn Street Theatre
Project details:
by David Greig
Date: 2024
Production (role):
BELLRINGERS
Company:
Atticist / Ellie Keel Productions / Hampstead Theatre / Paines Plough Roundabouts
Project details:
by Daisy Hall
Date: 2022
Production (role):
SAP
Company:
Ellie Keel / Atticist / Paines Plough Roundabout / MAST / Mayflower Studios
Project details:
by Rafaella Marcus
Date: 2022
Production (role):
TWENTY-EIGHT
Company:
DEM Productions / Theatre503
Project details:
by Alexandra Donnachie
Date: 2021
Production (role):
WRITE WILD: BLOCKBUSTERS
Company:
Park Theatre / WildChild & Les Enfants Terribles
Project details:
by Ciaran Fitzgerald
Date: 2021
Production (role):
THE GIFT
Company:
Offbeat Festival / Oxford Playhouse Studio
Project details:
by Rafaella Marcus
Date: 2020
Production (role):
SAP
Company:
Paines Plough / Ellie Keel / Atticist
Project details:
Vault Festival, Work-in-progress
Date: 2019
Production (role):
CORRE (SPANISH) / RUN (ENGLISH)
Company:
Cervantes Theatre
Date: 2019
Production (role):
ANNA BELLA EEMA
Company:
Atticist / Ellie Keel / Arcola Theatre
Project details:
NOMINATED: two 2019 Off West End Awards, including Best Ensemble
Date: 2019
Production (role):
THIS IS A LOVE STORY & UNICORN
Company:
North Wall
Date: 2019
Production (role):
OUTLYING ISLANDS
Company:
Atticist at King's Head Theatre
Project details:
Nominated 2019 Off West End Awards Best Production
Date: 2018
Production (role):
DANGEROUS GIANT ANIMALS
Company:
Park Theatre (London) and Underbelly (Edinburgh)
Project details:
WON: 2018 inaugural SIT-Up Award,
SHORTLIST: 2018 Clean Break Award
OTHER: Evening Standard’s 2018 Best New Writing at Edinburgh Fringe
Date: 2018
Production (role):
NICK HALL: SPENCER
Company:
Underbelly (Edinburgh)
Date: 2018
Production (role):
FOR REASON'S THAT REMAIN UNCLEAR
Company:
King's Head Theatre
Date: 2018
Production (role):
EAST
Company:
Atticist at King's Head Theatre
Project details:
NOMINATED: five 2018 Off West End Awards, including Best Director and Best Ensemble (FINALIST)
Date: 2017
Production (role):
DEADLY DIALOGUES
Company:
3LD (New York) and C venues (Edinburgh)
Project details:
NOMINATED: 2017 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award
Date: 2016 / 2017
Production (role):
LIFE ACCORDING TO SAKI
Company:
New York Theatre Workshop 4th Street Theatre (New York) / C venues (Edinburgh)
Project details:
WON: 2016 Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award
RADIO
Date: 2020
Production (role):
A PASSION PLAY
Company:
Atticist / Ellie Keel Productions / The North Wall / 45 North
Project details:
By Margaret Perry
Date: 2020
Production (role):
YOU PLAY: HAUNTED WOMAN
Company:
45 North
Project details:
By Rafaella Marcus
Date: 2020
Production (role):
YOU PLAY: SMALL ACTS
Company:
45 North
Project details:
By Rafaella Marcus
Date: 2020
Production (role):
THE GIFT
Company:
45 North / North Wall / Ellie Keel Productions / Atticist
Project details:
By Rafaella Marcus

Credits

  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2025
    Production (role): MEMORIAM
    Company: Royal Court Theatre
    Project details: by Noga Flaishon

    Staged reading as part of the Royal Court's inaugural Open Submissions Festival
  • Date: 2025
    Production (role): OUTLYING ISLANDS
    Company: Atticist / Jermyn Street Theatre
    Project details: by David Greig
  • Date: 2024
    Production (role): BELLRINGERS
    Company: Atticist / Ellie Keel Productions / Hampstead Theatre / Paines Plough Roundabouts
    Project details: by Daisy Hall
  • Date: 2022
    Production (role): SAP
    Company: Ellie Keel / Atticist / Paines Plough Roundabout / MAST / Mayflower Studios
    Project details: by Rafaella Marcus
  • Date: 2022
    Production (role): TWENTY-EIGHT
    Company: DEM Productions / Theatre503
    Project details: by Alexandra Donnachie
  • Date: 2021
    Production (role): WRITE WILD: BLOCKBUSTERS
    Company: Park Theatre / WildChild & Les Enfants Terribles
    Project details: by Ciaran Fitzgerald
  • Date: 2021
    Production (role): THE GIFT
    Company: Offbeat Festival / Oxford Playhouse Studio
    Project details: by Rafaella Marcus
  • Date: 2020
    Production (role): SAP
    Company: Paines Plough / Ellie Keel / Atticist
    Project details: Vault Festival, Work-in-progress
  • Date: 2019
    Production (role): CORRE (SPANISH) / RUN (ENGLISH)
    Company: Cervantes Theatre
    Project details:
  • Date: 2019
    Production (role): ANNA BELLA EEMA
    Company: Atticist / Ellie Keel / Arcola Theatre
    Project details: NOMINATED: two 2019 Off West End Awards, including Best Ensemble
  • Date: 2019
    Production (role): THIS IS A LOVE STORY & UNICORN
    Company: North Wall
    Project details:
  • Date: 2019
    Production (role): OUTLYING ISLANDS
    Company: Atticist at King's Head Theatre
    Project details: Nominated 2019 Off West End Awards Best Production
  • Date: 2018
    Production (role): DANGEROUS GIANT ANIMALS
    Company: Park Theatre (London) and Underbelly (Edinburgh)
    Project details: WON: 2018 inaugural SIT-Up Award,
    SHORTLIST: 2018 Clean Break Award
    OTHER: Evening Standard’s 2018 Best New Writing at Edinburgh Fringe
  • Date: 2018
    Production (role): NICK HALL: SPENCER
    Company: Underbelly (Edinburgh)
    Project details:
  • Date: 2018
    Production (role): FOR REASON'S THAT REMAIN UNCLEAR
    Company: King's Head Theatre
    Project details:
  • Date: 2018
    Production (role): EAST
    Company: Atticist at King's Head Theatre
    Project details: NOMINATED: five 2018 Off West End Awards, including Best Director and Best Ensemble (FINALIST)
  • Date: 2017
    Production (role): DEADLY DIALOGUES
    Company: 3LD (New York) and C venues (Edinburgh)
    Project details: NOMINATED: 2017 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award
  • Date: 2016 / 2017
    Production (role): LIFE ACCORDING TO SAKI
    Company: New York Theatre Workshop 4th Street Theatre (New York) / C venues (Edinburgh)
    Project details: WON: 2016 Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2020
    Production (role): A PASSION PLAY
    Company: Atticist / Ellie Keel Productions / The North Wall / 45 North
    Project details: By Margaret Perry
  • Date: 2020
    Production (role): YOU PLAY: HAUNTED WOMAN
    Company: 45 North
    Project details: By Rafaella Marcus
  • Date: 2020
    Production (role): YOU PLAY: SMALL ACTS
    Company: 45 North
    Project details: By Rafaella Marcus
  • Date: 2020
    Production (role): THE GIFT
    Company: 45 North / North Wall / Ellie Keel Productions / Atticist
    Project details: By Rafaella Marcus
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