SARAH HUGHES, DIRECTOR & PRODUCER www.sarahcameronhughes.com 860-778-7291 [email protected] DIRECTING (selected) A Woman Among Women Julia May Jonas / Nellie Tinder The Bushwick Starr (Fall 2020) Untitled Vanessa Garcia WP Theater’s Pipeline Festival (Spring 2020) The Drinking Bird Sam Goodman / LLTC New Ohio’s Ice Factory Festival (July 2019) Untitled Climate Change Opera Zarina Shea LPAC Rough Draft Festival some higher glimmer... Cara Scarmack Buran Theatre / The Collapsable Hole A Walrus In The Body of a Crocodile MJ Kaufman Clubbed Thumb Winterworks Real Talk / Kip Talk Eliza Bent / Bentertainment Abrons Arts Center / JACK / LA tour Wood Calls Out to Wood Corinne Donly The Tank Afterward Sam Goodman / LLTC Columbia University / Signature Theatre A Star Has Burnt My Eye Howard Fishman The Brick Special Cheese Sam Goodman / LLTC Columbia University Barter (conceived & directed) Various Artists Vox Theater Saturn Superhero Clubhouse The Wild Project / The Tank Neptune Superhero Clubhouse Flux Factory READINGS & WORKSHOPS (selected) On The Backs of Snails Julia Izumi WP Theater / Brown University The Light at The End of The Tunnel Eliza Bent Hook & Eye Theater / The Flea Spaaahmateur Eli Nixon New Georges / Dixon Place Isla! Isla! Isla! Yudai Kamisato; tr. Aya Ogawa Segal Center Japanese Playwrights Project Yasmina’s Necklace Rohina Malik Hypokrit Theatre / Keen University A Woman Among Women Julia May Jonas / Nellie Tinder New Georges / NACL / Prelude The Regulars Eliza Bent / Bentertainment Adjusted Realists/ New Light Theatre Project The Roosters Trilogy Sam Goodman / LLTC Swarthmore College Artist Residency We Used to Wear Bonnets... Julia May Jonas / Nellie Tinder New Georges / The Tank Dearly Beloved Chana Porter & Deepali Gupta New Georges Audrey Residency Manhood Hideto Iwai Japan Society Raid 2.0 / Myrmidon Alaina Ferris The Tank / NYU Game Center The Drinking Bird Sam Goodman / LLTC The Brick’s This is Not Normal Festival Times Square Paul Cameron Hardy Clubbed Thumb Reading Series flesh failure Chris Tyler The Civilians R&D Group Series some higher glimmer... Cara Scarmack The Bushwick Starr Reading Series +51 Aviación, San Borja Yudai Kamisato; tr. Aya Ogawa PEN World Voices / Segal Center America Breathing McFeely Sam Goodman Habitat Theater / The Segal Center ASSISTANT DIRECTING Bobbie Clearly Will Davis Roundabout Underground A Sort of Joy ERS / Office for Creative Research The Museum of Modern Art Arguendo ERS / Office for Creative Research Public Theater / US Tour The Parable Conference Pablo Helguera BAM Next Wave Festival On the Future of Art Pablo Helguera Guggenheim Museum Fondly, Collette Richland ERS / Sibyl Kempson Walker Art Center Shuffle ERS / Ben Rubin & Mark Hansen NY Public Library / Prague Quadrennial The Select (The Sun Also Rises) Elevator Repair Service NYTW / US & Int’l Tour Gatz Elevator Repair Service Public Theater / West End / US & Int’l Tour FILM / VIRTUAL REALITY Lincoln / Objects (writer / producer) Graham Sack / Geoff Sobelle PRELUDE Virtual Arcade / Sensorium Objects In Mirror... (co-producer) Graham Sack / Geoff Sobelle Tribeca Film Festival / NYTW Next Door Subject: Object VR (writer / producer) Graham Sack / Geoff Sobelle NYTW / Sensorium Lincoln in the Bardo VR (producer) Graham Sack The New York Times / Sensorium ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP Theatre Row / Building for the Arts: Director of Artistic Programming, Jan 2019-present. Working with leadership to develop a new approach to programming & curation for the organization. Sibyl Kempson / 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf. Co: Producer, 2018-present. Produced Sasquatch Rituals at The Kitchen; currently assisting Sibyl in creative and logistical planning for the development of new works for Abrons Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory, and more. Target Margin Theater: Co-Artistic Producer, 2015-2017. Produced all programming for OBIE Award-winning theater company, including marathon production of Mourning Becomes Electra at Abrons Arts Center. Responsible for season curation, daily operations, and liaising between Artistic Director David Herskovits and all production teams. Co-led Target Margin Institute for early- and mid-career artists. Half Straddle: Associate Producer, 2014-2015. Line produced for OBIE Award-winning theater company led by Tina Satter, including World Premiere of Ancient Lives at The Kitchen. Alongside Producer Aaron Rosenblum, managed tours of House of Dance and In the Pony Palace/Football. The Office for Creative Research: Project Manager, 2014-2015. Produced public art performance piece A Sort of Joy (with Elevator Repair Service) in the galleries at MoMA, as well as a variety of other creative projects for a data-based design company. Elevator Repair Service Theater: Assistant Director & Stage Manager, 2007-2014. Assisted Artistic Director John Collins throughout multi-year development processes on 6 award-winning shows, from first rehearsal to off-Broadway premieres to international tours, for Obie Award-winning theater company. AWARDS & AFFILIATIONS (selected) NNPN / O’Neill National Directors Fellowship, 2019. One of 5 artists awarded professional guidance on a national scale as well as a production at an NNPN member theater. WP Theater Lab Directing Fellowship, 2018-2020. This competitive 2-year program provides production opportunities and mentorship from Leigh Silverman and WP Staff. Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship, 2017-2018. Workshopped an MJ Kaufman play in this new play directing intensive mentored by Ken Rus Schmoll & Anne Kauffman. New Georges Jam, 2016-present. Created work with Zarina Shea, Eli Nixon & Julia May Jonas in this working group for early-career theatermakers. The Civilians R&D Lab, 2016-17. Developed a new work with multi-disciplinary artist Chris Tyler in this investigative theatermaking group. Drama League First Stage Residency, 2019. Awarded time and space to workshop Eliza Bent’s The Light at the End of the Tunnel: An MTA musical. Target Margin Theater Artist Residency, 2019. New Georges Audrey Residency Recipient, 2018. Workshopping Dearly Beloved, a new choral play, with playwright Chana Porter and composer Deepali Gupta. TEACHING NYU Playwrights Horizons Theater School: Visiting Lecturer, 2019. Developer & co-leader of a workshop with Julia May Jonas on her five-play cycle All Long True American Stories. Dartmouth College: Visiting Lecturer, 2016-present. Developer & co-teacher of Contemporary American Theater and Devising with Professor Laurie Churba Kohn. EDUCATION BA, Theater & Creative Writing from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. .