Anoushka Lucas
Anoushka Lucas is a singer, songwriter, composer and actress. Her music has been championed on Radio 2, where she has appeared on the Jamie Cullum show and BBC Introducing, and she was the inaugural winner of Jazz FM’s Love Supreme Competition in 2013. She has sold out shows at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, the 606, and Bush Hall to name a few, and in the past year supported Tom Oddell, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Ashley Henry. Her debut album “Dark Soul” was released earlier this year. As a theatre composer, Anoushka co-composed an original score for Klook’s Last Stand (Park Theatre, 2014/NAMT Festival 2017) with Omar Lyefook, and The Etienne Sisters (Theatre Royal Stratford East, 2015) with Sheila Atim and Nikki Yeoh – both with books by Che Walker. Anoushka also composed and performed in Sparks (2018, Edinburgh Festival, voted Best Musical of The Fringe) by Jessica Butcher. As an actor, Anoushka most recently starred in Chiaroscuro (Bush Theatre) and has played Mary Magdalene in the Olivier Award winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, 2016) and in Sparks (Vault Festival/Edinburgh Festival/High Tide Festival 2018).
