Lucy Heffernan

Teaching Artist

Lucy is an actor, writer, singer songwriter and theatre maker. Lucy studied a Bachelor of Performance degree at the University of Wollongong. Lucy’s one woman show PARTY GIRL won the Week 4 Award for Best Theatre/ Physical Theatre at the 2023 Adelaide Fringe and was recently re-mounted at KXT on Broadway to critical acclaim. As an actor, her most recent theatre credits include: The Midnight Gang (CDP), Luna Gale (Ensemble), Lost Boys (Merrigong Theatre Company), Single Asian Female (Belvoir St/La Boîte) and 4:48 Psychosis (Redline/ Workhorse productions). As a writer, Lucy has previously presented PARTY GIRL (MerrigongX and Crack Theatre Festival), The Fool (UOW), Midsummers…Yeah, Nah! (UOW) and Teen Angst (Shopfront Arts Co-op), incorporating original music into all her work. Lucy is also the creator of Stay at Home with Sprinkles, a musical web series made during Sydney’s 2021 lockdown. Lucy works as a teaching artist at Shopfront Arts Co-op, ATYP and Voices of Women, running workshops for young people and women across the country; a role which she loves. She is a proud dog mum.


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