About Me

Ivey Lowe is a Brooklyn-based director who works across the fields of theater, education, community engagement, civic practice, integrated media, and film. Her work uses interdisciplinary mediums to explore questions around interdependence, intimacy, and community care, focusing on stories that uplift female and queer experiences. 

As a theater director, she is an alumni of the Drama League Directing Fellowship, Williamstown Theater Directing Corps, and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Recent directing includes Missing Parts by Jacquelyn Reingold with 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, The Taming of the Shrew and Away Uniform by Tina Satter (Brooklyn College), Providence by Nancy Bleemer (Summer Shorts at 59E59), Beating a Dead Horse by Jenny Stafford (Bloomington Playwrights Project), The Switch by Charlie O’Leary (Fresh Fruit Festival), Spring Awakening The Musical (Yale University), Far Away by Caryl Churchill (Hangar Theatre), and Happily After Ever by Laura Zlatos (Bloomington Playwright’s Project). As a director of new work, she has developed projects with Musical Theater Factory, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The BRICK, Dixon Place, The Tank, and many more. 

She holds an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College, where she was a Graduate Teaching Fellow, National Schubert Scholar, and recipient of The Buchwald Fellowship Award. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Community Leadership from the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, allowing her to deepen her knowledge of community-centered social change practices to support transformation in our field. During these consecutive degrees, She was a Social Practice CUNY Fellow funded by the Mellon Foundation and a Civic Saturday National Fellow with Seattle-based Citizen's University. She bridged these two opportunities by creating a pilot program in the Brooklyn College arts community that facilitated student-organized interdisciplinary arts programming while researching how civic engagement and artistic expression can impact positive institutional change. Other recent interdisciplinary projects include Obsession and Legacy, a theater and music collaboration with NYC baroque musical ensemble, The Sebastians, The Student Organizing Archive, an interactive sound installation and digital archive cataloging the rich history of student action and organizing at CUNY, and The Story of PIST: NYC School Bus Right Campaign, a short interview-based documentary and projection installation in collaboration with Parents to Improve School Transportation to advocate on behalf of NYC parents and student with disabilities. 

As an administrator, she has focused her work on positions that enhance the communities where she lives. Currently, she is the Organizational Communications Consultant at The Hunts Point Alliance for Children, an arts and education non-profit in the Bronx, where she directly supports internal and external communications for 11 programs, including their youth theater program in partnership with The Shakespeare Initiative at The Public Theater. Previously, she was the Community Partnership Coordinator for Fuel The People, a grassroots racial justice organization focused on food equality, to support their mission that "food is fuel for the revolution." Her additional administrative background includes numerous years in professional casting, project management, and producing. As an educator, she has taught as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College and has worked as a facilitator and teaching artist at Pace University, Yale University, SUNY Albany, Musical Theater Factory, Drama League, 24 Hour Plays, and TheaterWorks USA.

For a more personal touch...

I currently reside in Brooklyn, NY in the neighborhood of Flatbush with my husband and 2 pets Ollie and Reggie. As an arts practitioner, I am dedicated to investigating art-based initiatives that can increase our sense of shared purpose and collective action. My work, no matter the medium, meets at the transformative intersections of arts, community engagement, and cultural organizing. I work collaboratively to build creative opportunities that foster a culture of ethical and transparent practices that center generosity, empowerment, and, most importantly, joy.