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lucy tyler (PHD, MPhil, BA, PGCHE, RYT200, RYT300-) is a dramaturg, somatic movement artist, and scholar of new performance development. She has a background in new writing, having worked as a playwright and reader in a number of theatre literary departments. Her practice expanded until she was co-creating with diverse companies in the UK, Europe, the USA, and Brazil. Originally working as a text-based dramaturg, lucy’s movement dramaturgy has evolved around her retraining as a Somatic Movement Educator (with the School of Body-Mind Centering), and advanced yoga teacher training. Based on her dramaturgical practice, lucy’s scholarship explores what political and institutional conditions support the initiation of new performances, and what it is to be with, and care for, artists as they make. She is author of English Play Development under Neoliberalism 2000-2020 (CUP, 2025), and Work in Progress: English Performance Development & Care (forthcoming). To support artists, lucy runs two projects. The first is ‘Work in Progress’, an Arts Council England- funded initiative to seed-fund and facilitate the development of new touring works by emerging and established artists of national and international acclaim (2017-). The second is ‘Elements Movement Lab’ based at Ayres House Studios, Wallingford. Elements Movement Lab is a space for creative self-enquiry through movement for artists and members of the community. Through Elements, lucy teaches movement as a creative practice and movement for life. lucy is also an artist who makes performances, texts, videos and installations. She uses improvisational movement processes to explore how the present and futures of landscapes, spaces and places are intertwined with the material practices and ephemera of m/othering. In her recent work, lucy is interested in how commodities, capitalist excess, surveillance, and pollution interact with mothering bodies and places. Her practice explores alternative futures to historical material logics. She works in poetry, scores, scripts, prose, photography and body-based/somatic experimentation. She collaborates with other artists in devising performance methods, improvising scores, writing texts, and making audio-visual works.