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Writer · Director · Performer
Lucy Boisvert
She staged her first play in a converted church in a Wisconsin town of 3,000 — it sold out, because nothing else was on. Around thirty shows in three years later, she does not believe creative block exists.
Based
New York City
Company
Infinite Monkey Theater Co.
Works in
Playwriting · Directing · Sketch · Performance
Known for
Oops, We Lost a Nuke · Did You Charge Your Phone for the End of the World
Interview
39 min · Hop For Pop · 2026
“The only way to be creatively blocked is to say you have creative block.”
Lucy Boisvert — Hop For Pop
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Biography
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Lucy Boisvert writes, directs and performs with Infinite Monkey Theater Co., the company she makes work with alongside her creative partner Fletcher Michael. Between them they have staged around thirty shows in three years. She grew up in Alaska and then rural Wisconsin, in a town of 3,000 with a graduating class of eight — which she argues is an excellent place to start making things, because nobody has anything else to do.
She was writing plays by early high school and staging them locally by fourteen. Her first full-length comedy, written and directed at seventeen, was a Scooby-Doo parody called Mystery Crew, which ran five performances in a 70-seat converted church and sold out most of them. She moved to New York at eighteen to do stand-up, found it too solitary, and went looking for a community through sketch classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade — where she and Fletcher Michael read their writing aloud in the same class and silently clocked each other.
She identifies primarily as a writer, and is the one who tends to take the dramatic scenes when the two of them split a script. At the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe she performed in Did You Charge Your Phone for the End of the World and both co-wrote and directed Oops, We Lost a Nuke — her directorial debut for a play. A queer romantic comedy, Party Fighter, is in development, alongside a sketch series, Why Am I Like This?
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What you should know before you book her
Lucy Boisvert is the most process-minded person in this series, and cheerfully unromantic about where comedy comes from. Her position is that writing is a job you turn up to, and that treating it as magic is how people talk themselves out of doing it.
Creative block is not real
“People aren’t getting construction block when they don’t want to go to their construction worker job.” She treats it as a self-image problem, not a creative condition.
Jokes get reverse-engineered
Her favourite joke in Oops, We Lost a Nuke was the least natural and the hardest won — built from a blank in the script and a deliberate grind through stupid options until one landed.
Volume is the training
A year of writing a fresh sketch show every month — while also on a UCB house team and at the Second City Conservatory — is what taught her to turn the tap on for comedy at will.
Writer first, then director, then actor
Her own ranking by ease. She is candid that acting is the one she is still pushing herself on, and that she watches back footage to catch her own pacing.
She takes the dramatic scenes
In collaborations with Fletcher Michael, the intimate and dramatic passages tend to be hers — she finds writing from wherever she actually is easier than manufacturing silliness.
A team should be jealous of each other
Her definition of a good company: nobody feels like the funniest person in the room, and everyone wishes they had written what the others wrote.
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Quotable
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“My graduating class from high school was eight people.”02
“That’s the nice thing about doing stuff in a small town — nobody has anything to do.”03
“People will come and watch and laugh at my words. I’ve been hooked for a while on adults’ attention, and now I’m an adult and I still want adults’ attention.”04
“I’m very natural telling people what to do. I love directing for that reason.”05
“It kind of started out as a lie. People started asking me what I was doing, and I just started saying I was going to New York — and then I did it.”06
“The main motivation to start on something is that I have something that needs to exist in the world so it can stop terrorising me and my brain.”07
“Everybody should be jealous of each other in a really healthy, lift-you-up way.”08
“I don’t want to feel like the funniest person in the room.”09
“The only way to be creatively blocked is to say you have creative block.”10
“Nobody can only do their job when they’re drunk. That’s something drunk people say.”11
“If you are purely relying on observation, you’re going to run out of stuff really quickly.”12
“People aren’t getting construction block when they don’t want to go to their construction worker job.”13
“It’s a lot of first drafts and a lot of stuff is really bad — but you can’t make something from nothing.”14
“We started from a place of: we need a joke, and we need to just be writers and do our jobs.”15
“Comedy is definitely a harder thing to get to the point where you can just turn on the tap.”16
“With comedy you have to be like: I am going to be goofy and silly now, even though I’m feeling bad, even though it’s 7am.”
Attribution: Lucy Boisvert, speaking to Hop For Pop, 2026.
Career
Selected credits
Theatre
- Oops, We Lost a Nuke — co-writer and director; Edinburgh Fringe 2026, her directorial debut for a play
- Did You Charge Your Phone for the End of the World — performer; Edinburgh Fringe 2026
- Chimp Cocktail — sketch show, Edinburgh Fringe
- Mystery Crew — written and directed at seventeen; five-performance sold-out run
- Around thirty shows in three years with Infinite Monkey Theater Co.
Sketch & training
- Upright Citizens Brigade, New York — classes and house sketch team
- Second City Conservatory
- Why Am I Like This? — sketch series, released in parts
In development
Party Fighter, a queer romantic comedy written with Fletcher Michael, and a mini-series about the creative-partner relationship.
Logistics
Press assets & contact
Online
Instagram @infinitemonkeytheaterco (Infinite Monkey Theater Co.)
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