Director

Judy
Hegarty Lovett

(she/her)

With twenty-three Beckett productions for Gare St Lazare Ireland, Judy Hegarty Lovett is the pre-eminent director of Samuel Beckett’s work. Among them Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Lessness, Enough, Worstward Ho, Texts For Nothing, First Love, The End, The Calmative, Ill Seen Ill Said, How It Is, Here All Night, Waiting for Godot, Rockaby, and all six Beckett radio plays. She has presented in over eighty-five cities worldwide at venues including Lincoln Center Theater, Signature Theatre Company (NYC), UCLA Live, National Theatre (London), Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, and Abbey Theatre (Dublin). In 2021 Judy directed a six-hour film of Beckett’s novel How It Is and was awarded a Ph.D. on the staging of Beckett’s prose at University of Reading, UK. She has a post-grad degree in Dramatherapy and a degree in Fine Art/mixed media. In the US she directed Copenhagen by Michael Frayn at Rubicon Theatre Company, Title and Deed and The Realistic Joneses, both by Will Eno. Judy won Best Director at The Irish Times Irish Theater Awards in 2022 for The Realistic Jones and was nominated for Best Director at The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards in 2019 for How It Is (Part 2) and for Best Production in 2018 for How It Is (Part 1).