Sophie Hunter

Sophie Hunter is a British avant-garde theatre and opera director, playwright, actress, and singer. She directed Phantom Limb Company’s experimental play 69° South (2013), which dramatized the almost fatal voyage of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton by having performers on stilts manipulate marionettes, the New York production of Benjamin Britten’s opera The Rape of Lucretia (2011), the African tour of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute (2011) for arts charity Opera for Change and the 2010 revival of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts at Access Theatre in New York City among others.