Lucy Sexton

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Lucy Sexton is a performer, director and choreographer who performs as Factress and is one half of Dancenoise. [1] [2] [3]

She is a Bessie Award winner, and later served as the organization's executive director before stepping down in 2020. [4] [5] As of 2014, she was associate artistic director at the World Trade Center Performing Arts Center. [6] As of 2020, she's Executive Director of New Yorkers For Culture and the Arts under which she co-leads the Culture at 3 calls. [7]

Sexton is married to Stephen Daldry and is a 1982 graduate of Ohio University. [8] [9]

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  2. ↑ "Helen Shaw on "Avant-Garde-Arama" at Performance Space New York". 2018-03-07. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  3. ↑ Kourlas, Gia (2017-04-06). "Dance in NYC This Week". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  4. ↑ Kourlas, Gia (2012-08-12). "Classifications in the Science of an Art". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  5. ↑ "Lucy Sexton Steps Down as Executive Director of the Bessies". www.artforum.com. 7 January 2020. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  6. ↑ Pogrebin, Robin (2014-02-13). "London Director to Draft Arts Vision for Ground Zero". The New York Times.
  7. ↑ Pogrebin, Robin (2020-05-12). "The Daily Call That 200 Arts Groups Hope Will Help Them Survive". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  8. ↑ claussn1 (2022-08-29). "Ohio University to confer Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree to Gladys Bailin Stern, emerita director and distinguished professor in the School of Dance". OHIO News. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  9. ↑ Strudwick, Patrick (2022-06-28). "Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry: 'The thing I'm most grateful for is being gay'" . Retrieved 2022-11-10.
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