Playwriting
A Year of Dating
A sell-out queer comedy based on the trials and tribulations of the Gen Z dating scene.
An experienced playwright, Lucy graduated The University of Melbourne in 2020. She double majored in English and Theatre Studies and Creative Writing, where she excelled in a number of playwriting classes.
During her time at university Lucy was nominated for a host of writing awards, winning the Mudfest Emerging Artist Award for Coming Out in 2019 and the Union House Theatre Outstanding Writing Award for Our Father in 2018.
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Lucy received the 2021 Queer Playwriting Award for her comedy Coming Out, and staged a full scale production of the work at Gasworks Arts Park for Midusmma Festival in 2022.
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In 2018 Lucy was part of the Union House Theatre Writer in Residence Program with renowned playwright Mari Lourey.
Here she received close mentoring and rigorous editing to continue to hone her skills in narrative creation and character development. Lucy writes plays that capture the lives of young people, bringing a unique perspective to issues of the current day.
Praise for early versions of Coming Out
“Gasworks Arts Park congratulates Lucy Holz on the creation of her new Australian play, Coming Out, which reflects the lived experience of queer women. Lucy has demonstrated a deft handle of comedy as well as an ability to balance light and shade to create an entertaining and enriching audience experience. We are really looking forward to further supporting the development of Lucy’s work and sharing it with audiences.”
— Marisa Cesario (Programming Coordinator, Gasworks Arts Park)
“Poignant, honest and downright funny, Coming Out deftly weaves between stories of sexual awakenings, whether gay, G-A-Y, lesbian, bisexual or beyond the capabilities of single-word labels. Coming Out is a successful and unabashedly queer letter of peace and acceptance”
— The Dialog
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Praise for Our Father
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“a very human drama. Structured mostly as a series of police interviews of the family of an accused man, there is a simplicity to the narrative that brings the characters and their experiences to the forefront”
“The relationship between the son and daughter, in particular, feels organic and taps into a universal experience of confusingly muddled empathy and apathy”
— The Dialog
“exemplary in their acting and unique themes, giving us a small but convincing ‘taste’ of the emotions and experiences of people like our friends, family and just strangers you stand with at the pedestrian crossing”
“the play’s strength was in its complex characters and acting”