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|family =Julius Drake (uncle) Michael Gow (maternal grandfather) J. E. B. Seely (maternal great-great grandfather) |children= 1 }} Sophie Irene Hunter (born 16 March 1978) is an English avant-garde theatre and opera director, playwright, and former performer. She 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. In addition, she has directed an Off-Off-Broadway revival of Henrik Ibsen's ''Ghosts'' (2010) at Access Theatre, the performance art titled ''Lucretia'' (2011) based on Benjamin Britten's opera ''The Rape of Lucretia'' at Location One's Abramovic Studio in New York City, and the Phantom Limb Company's ''69° South'' also known as ''Shackleton Project'' (2011) which premièred at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre and later toured North America. In August 2015, Hunter directed ''Phaedra'' to critical acclaim at the fourth Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival. In October 2015 she staged ''The Turn of the Screw'' in Suffolk and London for Aldeburgh Music, which received acclaim from critics. ==Early life and education== Hunter was born in Hammersmith, west London to parents Anna Katharine (née Gow) and Charles Rupert. The couple later divorced. She has two younger brothers, Timothy and Patrick as well as two half-siblings from her father's second marriage. She is a niece of pianist Julius Drake.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/phaedra-is-set-to-join-the-godots-345539.html#.Vbs5OZV7gac.twitter )〕 Her maternal grandfather is the General Sir Michael James Gow GCB, who worked with Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester in the 1950s and was Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen from 1981 to 1984. Hunter is a maternal great-great granddaughter of World War I politician J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first1=Jeff )〕 Hunter attended St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith before studying Modern Languages with a concentration in French and Italian at Oxford University. After graduating from Oxford, Hunter resided in Paris to study avant-garde theatre for two years at the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. She then trained at the Saratoga International Theatre Institute in New York City under theatre and opera director Anne Bogart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cft.org.uk/sophiehunter )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sophie Hunter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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