Lucy Sexton

{{Short description|Performer, director and choreographer}}

{{Missing information|article|place and date of birth and nationality|date=February 2025}}

Lucy Sexton is a performer, director and choreographer who performs as Factress and is one half of Dancenoise.{{Cite news |last=Kourlas |first=Gia |date=2015-07-19 |title=The Whitney Embraces Dancenoise, a Brash '80s Performance Duo |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/arts/dance/the-whitney-embraces-dancenoise-a-brash-80s-performance-duo.html |access-date=2022-11-10}}{{Cite news |date=2018-03-07 |title=Helen Shaw on "Avant-Garde-Arama" at Performance Space New York |language=en-US |url=https://www.artforum.com/performance/helen-shaw-on-avant-garde-arama-at-performance-space-new-york-74538 |access-date=2022-11-10}}{{Cite news |last=Kourlas |first=Gia |date=2017-04-06 |title=Dance in NYC This Week |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/arts/dance/dance-in-nyc-this-week.html |access-date=2022-11-10}}

She is a Bessie Award winner, and later served as the organization's executive director before stepping down in 2020.{{Cite news |last=Kourlas |first=Gia |date=2012-08-12 |title=Classifications in the Science of an Art |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/arts/dance/bessies-new-categories-limit-definitions-of-dance.html |access-date=2022-11-10}}{{Cite web |title=Lucy Sexton Steps Down as Executive Director of the Bessies |url=https://www.artforum.com/news/lucy-sexton-steps-down-as-executive-director-of-the-bessies-81822 |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=www.artforum.com |date=7 January 2020 |language=en-US}} As of 2014, she was associate artistic director at the World Trade Center Performing Arts Center.{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=2014-02-13 |title=London Director to Draft Arts Vision for Ground Zero |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/13/arts/design/london-director-to-draft-arts-vision-for-ground-zero.html}} 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.{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=2020-05-12 |title=The Daily Call That 200 Arts Groups Hope Will Help Them Survive |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/arts/coronavirus-new-york-culture.html |access-date=2022-11-10}}

Sexton has a child with her husband Stephen Daldry and is a 1982 graduate of Ohio University.{{Cite web |last=claussn1 |date=2022-08-29 |title=Ohio University to confer Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree to Gladys Bailin Stern, emerita director and distinguished professor in the School of Dance |url=https://news.ohio.edu/news/2022/08/ohio-university-confer-honorary-doctor-fine-arts-degree-gladys-bailin-stern-emerita |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=OHIO News |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Strudwick |first=Patrick |date=2022-06-28 |title=Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry: 'The thing I'm most grateful for is being gay' |language=en |url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/billy-elliot-director-stephen-daldry-50-years-of-pride-interview-1709464 |access-date=2022-11-10}}