Sarah Townsend
| Sarah Townsend | |
|---|---|
| Born | London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Director, producer, writer |
| Notable work |
Eddie Izzard: Stripped (2009) Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story (2009) Eddie Izzard: Force Majeure Live (2013) |
| Style | Documentary film, short film, theatre production |
| Website | www |
Sarah Townsend is a British producer, director, composer, and screenwriter. Townsend has worked across all genres, starting off in theatre and stage shows, moving into music production and then moving into feature and documentary film-making. In 2010 she received an Emmy nomination for her work on Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story for best Outstanding Nonfiction Special. Townsend splits her time between the United Kingdom and Los Angeles.
Townsend went on to run Oxmad Theatre Company, while working backstage on West End shows to fund herself. While living in Edinburgh, she then set up the GreyFriars Kirk House, an ex-soup kitchen which she turned into a venue for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. During the festival, Townsend ran shows including Bertolt Brecht's A Respectable Wedding and Company of Wolves by Polka TC, for 20 theatre companies from across the globe.
It was in Edinburgh where she "discovered" a number of stand-up comedians including Ardal O'Hanlon (star of the hit Irish sitcom Father Ted) who made his UK debut at the venue. Townsend also premiered Eddie Izzard's first solo standup show where he received his prestigious Perrier Award nomination. For a brief period of time, Townsend promoted Izzard along with Jenny Eclair.
Townsend then used the profits she earned to produce her own plays, which she toured around the UK and Ireland including a commedia version of Molière's 'Medecin Malgre Lui' and a punk version of Bulgakov's 'Molière.' It was on the set of 'Molière.' that she met Laurence Olivier Award-winning English actress, Noma Dumezweni who would go on to become the focus of her 2015 short documentary, 'Noma (Forgiving Apartheid)' which premiered at the 2015 Foyle Film Festival before officially entering the film festival circuit throughout 2016.
In the early nineties, Townsend took over the running the Time Out Street Entertainers Festival and mounted the World Street Fest in Covent Garden, bringing together performers from across the globe.
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