Judy Hegarty Lovett
Judy has a degree in Performance Art/Mixed Media from The Crawfrord College of Art & Design in Cork and a post graduate diploma in Dramatherapy from the University of Hertfordshire (UK). As an undergraduate in Cork she worked as a photographer and set designer with a number of Cork theatre companies. In 1991 she joined Gare St Lazare Players as an assistant to Artistic Director Bob Meyer. She has directed Bouncers by John Godber, The Possibilities by Howard Barker, The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter and more recently Swallow by Michael Harding. Her Beckett directing credits include Waiting for Godot and Rockaby and the radio plays, All That Fall, Embers, Roughs for Theatre I & II, Cascando, Words & Music and Becketts translation of The Old Tune by Robert Pinget. Judy has directed Gare St Lazare Players prose recitals Molloy, Malone Dies, The Beckett Trilogy, Lessness, Enough, Texts For Nothing and Worstward Ho. In 2005 she co-wrote and directed Tanks A Lot for Barabbas...the company at Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Also in 2005 she directed Anseo a mask piece devised and performed by HIV+ non actors at The Glucksman Gallery, Cork.
