I’m Lucy. I grew up Anglo-American in London and moved to NYC to become a playwright. Only in hindsight did it occur that a career in theatre/er would’ve been easier in the land of Shakespeare. Oh well.

Growing up third culture means examining every experience through the lens of divergent value systems. Every action or decision must be indexed by its acceptability here or there? Authority, and rules about how things must be done, are so often confined to context. Break out, and they become irrelevant. But breaking out carries a big risk—that of disconnection from cultures that were once called home.

For me, this risk makes life worth living. It’s why I write. My plays and screenplays portray fish out of water—some real (Amanda Knox, Lee Atwater), some imagined—searching beyond place and time for ultimate truth. As the independent creator and producer of Unicornland, I enjoyed full control of a narrative on female sexual agency, free from studio mandates’ stigma and bias. Sharing the story of my rehabilitation from a spinal cord injury on Medium allowed me to dig into the messy, non-linear truth of real life.

Oh. I also write (for money) about emerging technology and am fascinated by how generative AI makes writing—and narrative structure—disposable. As this tech progresses, I intend to lean into creative writing that is inherently human; sensory, observational, subjective, and brutally honest.