Lucy Coleman is an Australian screenwriter and director, producing original work under her label Loose As Hell Productions.
Lucy Coleman’s first TV series, EXPOSURE, premieres on STAN 20th June. Lucy is the Creator & Sole Writer of the 6x30min series, commissioned by STAN and partnered with ALL3 Media. The series is produced by Justin Kurzel, Shaun Grant and Nicole O'Donohue, under their newly established production banner THIRDBORN.
Lucy’s short film LEAN IN won Best Comedy Short at this years 2024 Flickerfest International Shorts Festival. It’s also won Best Actress and Best Screenplay at Venezia Shorts Festival, won Best Actress and was nominated for Best Screenplay at St Kilda Film Festival and is currently on the festival circuit. Selected by Venice Under the Stars and Hollywood Shorts Festival, with more to come.
Her previous projects include Hot Mess (feature film), which was nominated for Best Indie Feature Film at the 2020 AACTA Awards and Best Direction at the 2020 ADG Awards. HOT MESS became an Aussie festival hit and made its International Debut at SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. It was selected by SIFF Artistic Director Beth Barrett as one of the festivals must see films alongside Bo Burnham’s Eight Grade and Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post. HOT MESS was named “one of the best films of 2019” and placed in the TOP 30 Australian films of the decade by THE CURB - with Lucy being named “one of the most exciting new voices in Australian cinema”. HOT MESS is now available on AMAZON PRIME in Australia/ NZ & USA.
Lucy's web series On The Fringe, made its online debut in 2018. It made its International Premiere at UK's Pilot Light TV Festival in Manchester, its North American Premiere at LA Comedy Festival - 365. It has also been selected for Wendie Webfest Hamburg, Sicily Webfest, won Best International Screenplay at Copenhagen Webfest. ON THE FRINGE has had over 10 million views of DailyMotion.
Lucy was selected for the prestigious TALENT USA 2019 run by Screen Australia, that sent 10 Aussie filmmakers to LA for a week of intensive workshops and networking.
Lucy has been nominated for two Australian Directors Guild nominations in 2020. Best Director for a Feature Film under $1mil for HOT MESS and Best Director for Commercial Content for her work on the Koala Mattress Campaign: The Ex-(orcism).
In 2020, Lucy was part of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s IMAGINE-IMPACT script development program, working with her Shaper Shaun Grant (SNOWTOWN, MINDHUNTERS).
Lucy shadowed director Justin Kurzel on his Cannes Award winning feature film NITRAM. Lucy also completed an extensive shadow TV directing placement on S04 of the Australian TV series FIVE BEDROOMS with director Peter Templeman.
With a drive to write stories that dig deep into the gutteral truths of the female experience, Lucy's projects rip into a raw and irreverent take on some of those places that are a little touchier (and humiliating...) to explore. Adamant to share those more shameful experiences, makes others feel less alone and have a good bloody laugh along the way.
Lucy graduated with a Masters of Creative Writing from Sydney University in 2013, a Graduate Certificate in Screenwriting from AFTRS in 2014 and an undergraduate degree in Media (Screen and Sound) from UNSW in 2011. In her early late teens/ early twenties Lucy was an active member of the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) as an actor and writer, taking out their New Voices Competition in 2014 with her short film HOT KEBAB GUY.
REPRESENTATION:
USA:
UTA: Agents: Carolyn Sivitz, Anna Flickinger, Faith Brown.
AUS:
Lisa Mann Creative: Lisa Fagan.