About

Lily McMenamy (she/her) is a model and theatre maker born in the US living in London. She holds a diploma in physical theatre from L'École Jacques Lecoq and a Masters in Performance Making from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work appropriates and transforms languages, archetypes, and gestures in order to disarticulate the performance of marketplace femininity and to celebrate the grotesque as a vehicle for freedom. McMenamy’s work has been presented at Cabinet Gallery, London (2021), and the Volksbühne Berlin where she was resident artist in 2018 amongst others. Her writings have been featured in CURA magazine and she is a regular contributor to Marfa Journal.

Project

McMenamy’s association with London Performance Studios will focus on creation of a new solo performance work informed by her ongoing research in mime and the female grotesque towards the development of an embodied theory of modelling. This will explore techniques  for writing, devising, and performing drawn from visual and theatrical art discourses. Public touch points for this research and development will include a series of workshops building towards a production presented at London Performance Studios in 2025.