Her production of Bull by Mike Bartlett, won 'Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre' at the 2015 Olivier Awards.
[3] She became a professional Theatre director in 2005 when she left the BBC to produce Duncan Macmillan’s 'The Most Humane Way to Kill a Lobster'.
[5][6][7][8] In 2008 Lizzimore became the associate director at Out of Joint and co-directed The Mother by Mark Ravenhill, with Max-Stafford Clark, at The Royal Court theatre.
[9] Lizzimore is well known for directing premiers of new writing including Jonah and Otto by Robert Holman at The Royal Exchange Manchester, Faces in The Crowd by Leo Butler at The Royal Court Theatre,[10] One Day When We were Young by Nick Payne as part of the Paines Plough/Sheffield Roundabout Season and On the Rocks, a play written by Amy Rosenthal about the turbulent life of writer D.H.
[11][12] Lizzimore is also a playwright, her first play Mint premiered at The Royal Court Theatre in 2013.