Lily is a director working across theatre, musical theatre, and opera. She is the winner of the 2025 RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award. 

 

She is currently the associate director to Joe Mantello on the Broadway production of Death of a Salesman.  

 

Over the last year Lily has worked as the associate director to Joe Mantello on Here We Are (National Theatre), Nicholas Hytner on Richard II (Bridge Theatre), and Patrick Marber on The Producers (West End). 

 

In the same period, Lily also directed Lucy Prebble’s A Very Expensive Poison (Mountview), and her own adaptation of Corrinne Averiss's My Pet Star (Marlowe Theatre) - a musical for which Lily wrote the book and lyrics. 

 

The variety of Lily's career as an interdisciplinary director has enabled her to work with a wide range of companies, including the National Theatre, the Bridge Theatre, Menier Chocolate Factory, Stratford East, Theatre Royal Bath, the Royal Opera House, Manchester International Festival, Opera North, Opera Holland Park, and Welsh National Opera.