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Image by Joseph Lynn Sophie Hunter is an award-winning British artist and director whose work spans performance, theatre, opera, film and installation. Recent projects include Salt of The Earth, an environmentally-charged live performance and multimedia installation which premiered in Venice and has toured to Climate Week in New York and the United Nations Conference in Nice this year. Also the short film, Ylur, for Sigur Ròs’ album, Átta and a double bill of Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins and Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle for Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.

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, New York), 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 SunnyMarch. In 2021, she co-directed a film adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 for the New European Ensemble. Other current projects include: a collaboration with architect Santiago Calatrava on a production of Poulenc’s Les Dialogues Des Carmelites. She is creating a limited television series, Goodnight Nobody about the life of children’s author Margaret Wise Brown with Jessica Grindstaff and Angela Bourassa. She is also writing and directing a documentary about Margaret Wise Brown with Jessica Grindstaff and Merino Films.