Lucy Van Atta is an educator, actor, and director based in NYC. She holds an MFA in Acting from Brown/Trinity Rep and a BA in Theatre & English Literature from Middlebury College. Lucy grew up on the campus of a New England prep school and spent her childhood creating original plays with the other faculty kids. The daughter of a historian, she has always felt at home in the 18th or 19th century. Lucy specializes in accents/ dialects and has an absurdist sense of humor. For many years, she was a Teaching Artist with Child's Play NY, Shakespeare on the Sound, and The Studio for Performing Arts (CT). Lucy is now a full-time faculty member in the English Department at Riverdale Country School (Bronx, NY), teaching 8th and 10th grades.
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RECENT WORK: ​​​
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- Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking (July 2025)
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- Camp Director: Shakespeare on the Sound (June 2024)
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- Into The Woods (Concert Version) with Connecticut Stage Company (October 2023)
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- Actor in Residence at Maine Media Workshops (Allen Coulter's Directing Master Class, August 2023)
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- After/Life: Detroit '67 at Drew University (Feb 2023)​​