1. Sophie Irene Hunter was born on 16 March 1978 and is an English theatre director, playwright and former actress and singer.
20 Facts About Sophie Hunter
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Sophie Hunter made her directorial debut in 2007 co-directing the experimental play The Terrific Electric at the Barbican Pit after her theatre company Boileroom was granted the Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award.
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Sophie Irene Hunter was born in Hammersmith district of London on 16 March 1978, she is the daughter of Anna Katharine and Charles Rupert.
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Sophie Hunter has two younger brothers, and two half-siblings from her father's second marriage.
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Sophie Hunter was privately educated at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith before studying Modern Languages with a concentration in French and Italian at the University of Oxford.
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Sophie Hunter then trained at the Saratoga International Theatre Institute in New York City under theatre and opera director Anne Bogart.
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Sophie Hunter co-founded the Lacuna Theatre Company and was an associate director at Royal Court Theatre in the West End of London and Broadhurst Theatre in New York's Broadway for the play Enron.
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Sophie Hunter is the co-founder and artistic director of theatre company Boileroom, which won the 2007 Samuel Theatre Trust Award for the avant-garde play The Terrific Electric.
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Sophie Hunter serves as collaborating director and dramaturge on marionette and puppetry production with the Phantom Limb Company.
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Sophie Hunter was a member of the performance collective Militia Canteen.
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In collaboration with music director Andrew Staples, Sophie Hunter directed mezzo-soprano Ruby Philogene in Phaedra at the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival in Northern Ireland.
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Sophie Hunter has staged Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw in Suffolk and London for Aldeburgh Music.
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In June 2017, Sophie Hunter took part as narrator in Music on the Meare at Aldeburgh Festival with readings from Ovid, John Dryden and Ted Hughes alongside oboist Nicholas Daniel.
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Sophie Hunter worked on the transfer of Punchdrunk's Sleep No More to New York City in 2011 while serving as creative director for the theatre company Emursive.
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Sophie Hunter has directed the company's theatrical experiences The Forgotten and Don't Major in Debt Student House.
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In 2005, Sophie Hunter recorded a French-language music album titled The Isis Project in collaboration with songwriter Guy Chambers.
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Sophie Hunter has collaborated with Armin van Buuren for the song "Virtual Friend" which was included in Buuren's 2010 album Mirage.
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Sophie Hunter had supporting roles in the television series Midsomer Murders, Keen Eddie, Mumbai Calling and Torchwood.
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In May 2017, Sophie Hunter was announced as a producer for the film adaptation of Megan Sophie Hunter's dystopian novel The End We Start From alongside her husband Cumberbatch and Adam Ackland's production company Sunnymarch, and Liza Marshall's Hera Productions.
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Sophie Hunter had a long-term relationship with sculptor Conrad Shawcross whom she met while studying at Oxford.