Lucy Cashion is a multimedia director, artist-scholar, and professor of theatre whose experimental productions are theatrical form games: colliding, relentless patterns built from academic dramaturgy, corporal instincts, and the demanding and awesome presence of other artists in real time and space.
Cashion's work has a recognizable style that carries the imprint of her extensive training in dance and music; her rigorously experiential study of collaboration, dramaturgy, and producing at Columbia University; and her exposure to art history, foreign archives, and the politics of visual access throughout her childhood. In 2010, Cashion founded the experimental theatre company Equally Represented Arts and remains the company’s Artistic Director. She also devises and directs plays with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated adults through Prison Performing Arts. She has worked in theatre in France and Germany, and she teaches directing, physical and devised theatre, collaboration, and political theatre. Her research on collaboration is shaped by the range of conventions in artistic process across national identities, institutional cultures, and art forms. In 2010, Lucy founded the experimental theatre company Equally Represented Arts (ERA) and remains the company's Artistic Director.