Sophie Hunter is an award winning British Artist and Director whose work spans theatre, opera, film and installation. Recent projects include Salt of The Earth, a new performance and installation reimagining the story of Lot’s Wife, which premiered in Venice in September 2024; a short film,Ylur, for Sigur Ros’ album, Ãtta, released in June 2023; and a double bill of Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins and Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle for Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires in 2022.
Other directing credits include: Benjamin Britten’s Phaedra for the Happy Days Festival in Enniskillen, where Hunter staged the cantata as an immersive multimedia experience in an Olympic sized equestrian arena. For Aldeburgh, Sophie co-created a production of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. In New York, Sophie directed 69 Degrees South for Phantom Limb Company, in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet at The Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the Next Wave Festival.
Other directing and devising credits include: The Terrific Electric (Barbican) for which she and her company were awarded the Oxford Samuel Beckett Award for new voices in experimental theatre; Lucretia (Location One Gallery, SOHO), a multimedia installation with performance inspired by Benjamin Britten’s Rape of Lucretia; Ghosts, (Access theatre, New York), Tesla in New York (workshop stage) with film maker Jim Jarmusch and composer Phil Kline which previewed at the Hopkins Centre. Hunter was also Associate Director on award winning production Enron (Royal Court, West End, Broadway). In 2011 she was awarded the Location One British Artist Fellowship. In 2013 she was invited, with Phantom Limb, as an artist to the Rauschenberg Residency.
Hunter recently produced the feature film, The End We Start From, released in 2023 and starring Jodie Comer, with BBC Films and Sunny March. Other current projects include: a collaboration with architect Santiago Calatrava on a production of Poulenc’s Les Dialogues Des Carmelites. She is also creating a limited television series, Goodnight Nobody about the life of children’s author Margaret Wise Brown with Jessica Grindstaff and Angela Bourassa.
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