Dannie-Lu Carr is a Multi-Disciplined Creative Practitioner. She is a writer, singer/songwriter, actor, voiceover artist, and award-winning theatre director.
Dannie-Lu is also an ILM Level 7 qualified Executive Coach and Senior Training Consultant and the founder of Flaming Leadership.
Epic Little Monsters EP - out now, click here to listen.
In May 2025, Dannie-Lu hit the airwaves on the Patrick Kielty Show on BBC Five Live. You can listen here on BBC Sounds.
Dannie-Lu recently played the role of Martha in 'Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at The Stables Theatre in Hastings to strong reviews.
Dannie-Lu has written non-fiction books around Assertiveness and has collaborated on the Psychologies Magazine book, Real Ambition.
Her poetry work includes the book Open, a collaboration with artist Claire Zakiewicz.
She is currently working on a series of fairytales which are rewritten from the perspective of the childless middle-aged woman. More news on this one coming soon.
Dannie-Lu’s debut album Chunky Bitty Mermaid was released by Pastiche Records in October 2023. The album was produced by Sarah Gillespie and recorded at Eastcote Studios in London.
Her follow up EP Epic Little Monsters was released in January 2025. It was produced by John Nicholls and recorded in Hastings. Sign up for updates on music releases and gigs here.
https://www.dannielucarrmusic.com
As an actor, Dannie-Lu has played many roles on stage, radio, and screen. Her voice has been used for C4, C5 and BBC3 trailers, Eurosport documentaries, Classic FM idents, charity campaigns and children’s TV. She is represented by Red 24 Artists for her voiceover work.
You can listen to her reels here:
Dannie-Lu’s theatre directing work includes Chamber Music, Top Girls, Marat/Sade, Look Back in Anger, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Death of a Salesman, A View From the Bridge, Mother Courage, O Go My Man, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and The House of Bernarda Alba. She has been directing theatre since 1998.
In 2019, Dannie-Lu directed the three-times award winning Fool For Love by Sam Shepard for Compagnie-du-Vingt-Trois in Paris and Avignon.