Lucy Jane Parkinson or LJ Parkinson
is a British actor and
drag king LoUis CYfer.
Education
Parkinson studied performing arts at
Rotherham College of Arts and Technology in
South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. The county has four council areas which are the cities of Doncaster and Sheffield as well as the boroughs of Barnsley and Rotherham.
In N ...
and contemporary theatre and performance at
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University is located in the centre of Manchester, England. The university has over 40,000 students and over 4,000 members of staff. It is home to four faculties (Arts and Humanities, Business and Law, Health and Educa ...
before gaining an MA in contemporary performance making
at
Brunel University London.
Career
Parkinson played the central character
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= �an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the corona ...
and all the other, male, characters in ''Joan'', written and directed by Leo Skillbeck for the Milk Presents company.
Performances included
Camden People's Theatre in 2015,
the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as The Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, or Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest arts and media festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 dif ...
in 2016 (winning a
Scotsman Fringe First award
and
''The Stage'' award) and 2017,
the
Oval House Theatre, Brixton, in 2017
and
Spazju Kreattiv in Malta in 2018.
In 2017 they were one of the cast of four in Milk Presents' production ''Bullish'', a retelling of the myth of the
minotaur
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur ( , ;. grc, ; in Latin as ''Minotaurus'' ) is a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being ...
, at Camden People's Theatre.
In Summer 2018 they played D'Artagnan in
The Dukes' promenade production of ''The Three Musketeers'', adapted by
Hattie Naylor from
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (), 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where '' '' is French for 'father', to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils), was a French writer ...
'
novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself ...
, in
Williamson Park, Lancaster. In this version D'Artagnan was a young woman aspiring to become a musketeer.
In 2019 Parkinson toured the UK as the lead role of Fiona/Adrian in the Olivier winning production of ''
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...
''. The play follows a couple Alice and Fiona at the point in their relationship when Fiona reveals he has always identified as a male and now wants to start living as a man called Adrian.
Parkinson has since played a sellout run as Mrs Bedlam and Squire Wouldbe with The Young Vic Theatre as part of the Young Vic Unpacked season in ''
She Ventures and He Wins''.
References
External links
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Trailer for ''The Three Musketeers''
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British stage actors
British drag kings
Alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University
Alumni of Brunel University London