Lydia Lovell is a media producer, director, and production/technology professional based in New York City. With over a decade of experience in directing, creative and audiovisual production management, and camera work, she has worked with Intel, GQ, The New York Times, WNET/PBS American Masters, World of Dance, and Harvard VES, among others.
She is currently the Technical Manager, Production at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she manages all aspects of production and venue oversight of events in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium as well as digital and hybrid Education productions throughout the Museum (most recently for Healing Arts New York, a hybrid symposium in partnership with the World Health Organization and the Creative Arts Therapies Consortium at NYU Steinhardt).
Prior to her work at the Museum, she was the Technical Director for the School of Creative & Performing Arts in Manhattan, where she ran operations for the film, cinematography, and live event programs, shot and edited videos for the dance program, produced sizzle reels and promos for the school on web and social, and ran weekly black box showcases for both in-person and virtual audiences.
With a M.A. in Media Studies from The New School (New York, USA) and another M.A. in Investigation in Arts & Humanities from the Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha (Ciudad Real, Spain), Lydia is well-versed in both the creative and technical worlds of production, and excels in managing sustainable operations, building visionary teams, and producing high-quality programming both recorded and live, virtual and on set.
She is particularly passionate about producing dance and nonfiction for film and TV. She has produced dance videos with the "Speaking in Dance" series for The New York Times, taught and filmed as part of a dance on video intensive for Fusion Dance Company in San Francisco, and has filmed a number of short films and live and recorded dance videos for independent dancers and filmmakers.
Films Lydia has filmed and produced have appeared in the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, WoNYC Film Festival, RM Film Festival, and Ruff Cuts NYC. The documentary film short "Molly & the Cards" she produced and directed was a finalist for the Audience Awards, streaming on the Fusion TV. The place film short "The Reservoir" she produced and directed was an Official Selection, Seven Wonders Silent Film Festival, showing on exhibition at the National Wool Museum.
Photo credit: Tom Legoff
