S.C. Lucier
Director, Lyricist & Book Writer
"Director S.C. Lucier has shaped a heroic, big-hearted, and finely detailed mighty musical fable drenched in clear vision and perfectly executed staging. It’s a tight, well-polished, professional work that speaks of a successful rehearsal period where excellence was aimed for and achieved."
- NY Theatre Guide, HELD , Fringe Festival 2016
S.C. “Luci” Lucier (she/they) is an SDC director and a former member of the SCDF Observership Class of emerging directors. Lucier is a magna cum laude graduate of Marymount Manhattan College’s Theatre Directing program, where they received the department’s Gold Key of Excellence for her work in “innovative storytelling techniques.” They recently completed a master’s degree in Theatre History and Museology History + Digital Humanities at The Graduate Center (NYC), where they specialized in vaudevillian performers of male impersonation in the late 19th century.
Most recently, Luci co-created Xena: Warrior Musical with Rose. The cast album was released in November, 2023 and featured Jenn Colella, L Morgan Lee, Taylor Iman Jones, and Wren Rivera.
Directing credits include: Director of Xena: Warrior Musical at 3 Dollar Bill (off-off Broadway 2022). Director of HELD: A Musical Fantasy, written by Meghan Rose and Kelly Maxwell, at NY Fringe Festival 2016 and as a developmental reading at the New York Musical Festival (NYMF) 2018. Associate director of Kerrigan-Lowdermilk’s The Bad Years, the new immersive house party musical (first two iterations). Director of Steve Romagnali’s new play, Skip To My Lou, premiered at Theater for the New City 2017. Director of multiple Shakespeare in the parks for Hip to Hip Theatre Company, most recently A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2019.
Lucier has been a regular collaborator at Jennifer Jancuska’s (resident choreographer, Hamilton) The Bringabout and A*STIR, and was the production manager of Jancuska’s annual showcase of Broadway choreographers, called BC Beat, during its last few seasons. They have designed at the Joyce Theater for Richard Move’s The Show (Achilles Heels) in which Debbie Harry performed, designed at Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theatre, toured on the production team of the Martha Graham Dance Company (domestic tour and NYC seasons at City Center/the Joyce), and annually stage manages Cape Dance Festival (Provincetown, MA), among others. Lucier has also performed as a “dancer” at Baryshnikov Arts Center for choreographer Sally Silvers… on roller skates!
In her free time, Lucier captains one of New York City’s roller derby teams: The Bronx Gridlock (2018 NYC champions & 2019 undefeated NYC champions) and has also played on the world-championship roller derby team, Gotham All Stars, for five years. They are currently archiving the life’s work of Sally Silvers (to be accepted at Columbia University Library and New York Public Library) and working as the first staff member (Sr. Assoc., Public Programs & Partnerships) of the forthcoming American LGBTQ+ Museum in NYC.
XENA: WARRIOR MUSICAL by LUICER&ROSE
XENA WARRIOR MUSICAL: THE LOST SCROLL is a full length musical with more than 20 well-crafted original and eclectic songs —plus a few epic battle scores!— that pay tribute to the show you know and love. This action-packed production is an exciting new way to experience the timeless characters of the Xenaverse.
S.C. LUCIER
AWARDS AND ASSOCIATIONS
SDCF Observership Program — Class ‘15 to ‘16
2012 Gold Key of Excellence — Recipient, MMC Directing Department // Awarded for work in “innovative storytelling techniques.”
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society —Associate Member since 2012
Omicron Delta Kappa and Alpha Chi — Honors Societies Member
DIRECTORIAL CREDITS [NYC]
Xena: Warrior Musical, by Lucier&Rose — Director, Co-Creator // 3 Dollar Bill, 2022
HELD: A Musical Fantasy, by Meghan Rose and Kelly Maxwell — Director // NYC Fringe 2016, NYMF 2018
The Bring About & A-STIR — Director, Collaborator // Artistic Director: Jennifer Jancuska
A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Shakespeare — Director // Hip to Hip Theater
Henry IV, Part I, by Shakespeare — Director // Hip to Hip Theater
The Bad Years, by Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk — Associate Director // 2015 Loft 172, 2016 Brooklyn
Skip to My Lou, by Steve Romagnoli — Director // Premiere -Theater for the New City
The Record, collaboration with S. Ponomarenko Dance — Director // HATCH, Peridance, Dixon Place +
Two Gentlemen of Verona, by Shakespeare — Director // Hip to Hip Theater
Act Without Words II, by Beckett — Director // The Brick Theater (Bushwick Arts Festival)
Amazons and Their Men, by Jordan Harris — Alumni Guest Director, MMC // Bordeaux Box Theatre
NON-DIRECTORIAL CREDITS
The American LGBTQ+ Museum— Inaugural Staff Member
Sally Silvers (Choreographer) — Archivist
Louis Vuitton VVV Museum — Site Manager // Big Show Productions
BC Beat Choreography Showcase — Production Manager // Creative Director: Jennifer Jancuska
Cape Dance Festival — Production Manager // Provincetown, MA
Catherine Cabeen and Kristina Berger "Glitter in the Gutter" — Stage Manager // Theater for the New City
Martha Graham Dance Company — Production Management team // Joyce Theatre, City Center, NYLA, + Touring
Caterina Rago Dance, "Labor Into" — Stage Manager // NYLA
Richard Move’s The Show (Achilles Heels) with Debbie Harry— Designer, Set and Properties Restoration // Joyce Theatre
Lincoln Center, Education — Designer, Properties Procurement // Clark Studio Theater
Projects
Director
"HELD: A Musical Fantasy" by Meghan Rose and Kelly Maxwell
Theatre Row
NYMF 2018
Drom
NY Fringe Festival 2016
"Director S.C. Lucier has shaped a heroic, big-hearted, and finely detailed mighty musical fable drenched in clear vision and perfectly executed staging. It’s a tight, well-polished, professional work that speaks of a successful rehearsal period where excellence was aimed for and achieved." - NY Theatre Guide, HELD , Fringe Festival 2016
Associate Director
"The Bad Years"
by Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk
The first immersive house-party musical experience.
Jan 2015 at Loft 172
Jacob Patorti, Director
Sept 2016 at Flushing Ave
Stephen Brackett, Director
Director
"Skip to My Lou"
by Steve Romagnoli
Theater for the New City
"Steve Romagnoli's Skip to My Lou currently playing at Theater For the New City, is a drama of ideas, but it's also a drama... The air of constant and literal physical menace is something that the director S.C. Lucier artfully underscores throughout the production....” - Huffington Post
Director
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" 2019
"Henry IV, Part I" 2017
by Shakespeare
