Lucy Walker (director)

Lucy Walker is an award-winning English film director. She is best known for directing the documentaries Devil's Playground (2002), Blindsight (2006), Waste Land (2010), Countdown to Zero (2010), and The Crash Reel (2013). She has also directed notable short films, such as The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011) and The Lion's Mouth Opens (2014), and fifteen episodes of Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues, for which she was nominated for two Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Directing.

She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the International Documentary Association, and the Directors Guild of America.

Walker was born in London. She began directing theater in high school. As a student at Oxford University, she directed and produced an original musical called Querm. The movie won the prestigious Oxford University Dramatic Society Cuppers Award. Walker was the artistic director of the theater group New Company, and her outdoor musical productions of The Jungle Book and Tintin and the Broken Ear were cult hits. After graduating from New College, Oxford with a B.A. (Hons) and a M.A. (Oxon), she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' graduate film program, from which she received an MFA. She directed award-winning short fictional films at NYU.

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