Sophie Hunter is also known as Sophie Irene Hunter and she is an English woman who has gained a lot of fame for being an avant-garde theatre and opera director and playwright. Furthermore, she is also a former performer. In the year 2007, Sophie gave her directorial debut and there she was co-directing the experimental play titled The Terrific Electric. Her filming was going on at the Barbican Pit and this started right after Boileroom, which was her theatre company, was granted the Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award.
Along with this, Sophie Hunter has been also a part of an Off-Off-Broadway revival in the directorial post for Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts. It was premiered in the year 2010 and it was staged at Access Theatre, New York City. In the year 2011, she was part of the performance art titled Lucretia which was based on Benjamin Britten’s opera titled The Rape of Lucretia and it was held at Location One’s Abramovic Studio which is in New York City. Furthermore, Sophie also directed the Phantom Limb Company’s 69° South, in the year 2011, which was also known as Shackleton Project. It was premièred at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theatre. And, later on, this had a tour of entire North America. She is not just an actor and producer but she is also a talented singer. Her skills have helped her to gain fame and fans.
Sophie Hunter Wiki/Biography
Born on 16th March 1978, Sophie Hunter is 44 years old as of 2022. She was born and raised in Hammersmith, London, England. She is English by nationality and follows Christianity as her religion.
Sophie Hunter was also enrolled in the St Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith and after this, she went to study Modern Languages with a prior concentration on the French and Italian languages, especially at the University of Oxford. Sophie graduated from Oxford. Sophie used to reside in Paris and for two years, there, at the L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, she used to study avant-garde theatre. Furthermore, Sophie also took up lessons and got trained at the Saratoga International Theatre Institute in New York City. She took lessons under the renowned theatre and opera director named Anne Bogart.
