Thea Sharrock was born to journalist parents in London, but spent part of her childhood living in Kenya.
10 Facts About Thea Sharrock
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Thea Sharrock attended the Anna Scher Theatre School from the age of nine.
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Thea Sharrock first worked in administration at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, where she was allowed to assistant direct on one production, before returning to the UK, where she worked as a personal assistant at the NT studio.
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Thea Sharrock then read Philosophy and French at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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Thea Sharrock began her three-year tenure at the Southwark Playhouse in January 2001.
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Thea Sharrock left this post in 2006, and had been widely tipped to take over at the Royal Court Theatre, although the post eventually went to Dominic Cooke.
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Thea Sharrock served on the selection panel for the 2005 biennial Linbury Prize for Stage Design, and is a JMK Award trustee.
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In 2010, Sharrock directed a revival of Martin Crimp's version of The Misanthrope originally by Moliere, at the Comedy Theatre starring Keira Knightley and Damian Lewis.
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Thea Sharrock directed the 2020 Disney adventure The One and Only Ivan, based on the book of the same name.
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Thea Sharrock directed Wicked Little Letters, which premiered in 2023, about a series of poison pen letters sent in 1920s Littlehampton in Britain.