Sophie Hunter
Sophie Hunter is an award-winning British artist whose work spans performance, theatre, opera, film and installation. Recent projects include 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 Music, 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 filmmaker 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 invited to be the British artist at the Location One Residency Programme in New York. In 2013, with Phantom Limb, she attended the Rauschenberg Residency.
Hunter recently produced the feature film The End We Start From, released in 2023 and starring Jodie Comer, with BBC Films, Sunny March and Hera Films. 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.
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 Music, 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 filmmaker 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 invited to be the British artist at the Location One Residency Programme in New York. In 2013, with Phantom Limb, she attended the Rauschenberg Residency.
Hunter recently produced the feature film The End We Start From, released in 2023 and starring Jodie Comer, with BBC Films, Sunny March and Hera Films. 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.